professorial

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Recent Examples of professorial Paul Bledsoe is a professorial lecturer at American University's Center for Environmental Policy. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025 Nicolas Cage went for a high-concept ghoul in Longlegs; Hugh Grant reveled in professorial malevolence in Heretic; Naomi Scott unraveled in the face of grinning death in Smile 2. Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for professorial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
Adjective
  • Unable to keep pace, academic administrations largely stopped trying to control students’ use of artificial intelligence and adopted an attitude of hopeful resignation, encouraging teachers to explore the practical, pedagogical applications of A.I.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Invest in educator training that moves beyond basic tool familiarity to pedagogical integration and ethical considerations.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Distinguished Cadet Honors were awarded to cadets with scholastic standing and all-around aptitude in NJROTC activities.
    Cadet Nadeen Willat, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • Today, youth sports are dominated by expensive club or travel teams that compete outside of local scholastic programs.
    Russell Dinkins, Sportico.com, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • According to a 2018 study, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • An infrastructure of professionalism—conferences, along with scholarly journals and societies—had begun to emerge.
    Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Not to get too pedantic about it, but her latest look presents a wonderful learning opportunity for those of us looking to ace the art of dressing for this suffocating heat.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 24 June 2025
  • In Strauss’s opinion, Oppenheimer’s increasing concerns about nuclear proliferation and radioactive wastes were pedantic, alarmist.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • But they were clearly impressed by his scholarship and writing skills, which are the principal criteria for grading academic papers.
    Bob Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2025
  • The reality of climate anxiety is strongly supported by academic research.
    Simi Thambi​, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025

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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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