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Recent Examples of professorial
The movie’s true set pieces are the professorial villain’s ostentatious monologues using fast food, musical plagiarism, and Monopoly as metaphors to point out how modern religions are just conspicuous iterations of what’s come before.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
Review Eagles pay tribute to J.D. Souther, Jimmy Buffett at Sphere
As expected, Henley, clad in his traditional stage gear of a professorial vest, took a moment to honor J.D.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024
From the March 2024 issue: The rise of techno-authoritarianism
This is a surprising role for someone who started as almost a parody of professorial obscurity.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
Lanky and bearded, often solemn in tone but with a ready edge of sarcasm, Towne could show a professorial air.
—Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 2 July 2024
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
Review Eagles pay tribute to J.D. Souther, Jimmy Buffett at Sphere
As expected, Henley, clad in his traditional stage gear of a professorial vest, took a moment to honor J.D.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024
From the March 2024 issue: The rise of techno-authoritarianism
This is a surprising role for someone who started as almost a parody of professorial obscurity.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
Lanky and bearded, often solemn in tone but with a ready edge of sarcasm, Towne could show a professorial air.
—Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 2 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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Recognized for her pedagogical excellence, Dr. Washington has garnered accolades such as the Excellence in Teaching 2021 award and inclusion in Poet and Quants’ 40 under 40 MBA Professors in 2023.—
Dr. Ella F. Washington,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Classical Christian Education distinguishes itself by delivering a holistic approach to critical thinking and character development, demonstrating how ancient pedagogical wisdom can be recalibrated to meet the most pressing challenges of the 21st-century workforce.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Solar Power’s acoustic shampoo-commercial pop signified a degree of freedom from the usual rueful, bookish synth-pop grind.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2025
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.—
Scott Brown,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2022
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The 129th edition of the Penn Relays — featuring some the nation’s best collegiate and scholastic runners, jumpers and throwers — included impressive performances by visiting high school athletes from Jamaica.—
Jared Mccallister,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2025
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The proud dad even shared John’s grades, showing screenshots of his 100% test scores in business law while shouting out Hill for their son’s scholastic success.—
Avalon Hester,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.—
Joshua Hunt,
New York Times,
12 June 2024
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Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves.—
Rachel Tashjian,
Harper's BAZAAR,
8 Dec. 2022
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There have been TikTok videos, Reddit threads and scholarly essays, all dedicated to how that one scene traumatized us all.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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Graham Coop, the director of the university’s Center for Population Biology, was among nearly 250 new members announced last month by the academy, one of the nation’s oldest scholarly societies.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
12 May 2025
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Newsweek Sports quoted Bruckheimer's statements, highlighting Hamilton's pedantic approach while filming.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.—
Anna Commander
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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This philosophical underpinning drives the company beyond mere resurrection spectacles — a critique often levied by academic skeptics following the company’s milestone de-extinction announcement.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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