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Recent Examples of professorial
Gabriel has secrets hiding beneath his professorial veneer.
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Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.
—Richard Hughes Iv, STAT, 12 Jan. 2026
Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.
—Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
In academia, Soyinka has held professorial and visiting positions at universities around the world.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.
—Richard Hughes Iv, STAT, 12 Jan. 2026
Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.
—Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
In academia, Soyinka has held professorial and visiting positions at universities around the world.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
Adjective
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Program partners include the Durban FilmMart Institute and Central Film School, which in its role as advisory partner supports the program’s pedagogical approach and monitoring and evaluation processes.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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This pedagogical vision of democratic cooperation between students and teachers resulted in much successful collaboration.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026
Adjective
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Bar Tab Taran Dugal stops by a bookish dive bar.—
Zoë Hopkins,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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The Summer Reading Adventure is just one bookish event happening this year.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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There’s also Margo’s roommate Susie (Thaddea Graham), a delightfully nerdy cosplayer who turns out to be the most steadfast support-giver in Margo’s life.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Hannah first appears on our screen styled like the nerdy, approachable romantic lead.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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The problem of Black student academic malaise is not due to any lack of government funding, but rather a cultural malady that dishonors academic excellence and places ball-chasing above scholastic accomplishment.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
21 May 2026
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The team also captured the women’s scholastic championship.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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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
Adjective
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Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
5 Oct. 2018
Adjective
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Born to a humble family in the twilight years of the shogunate, Higuchi Natsuko (as she was born) was the fourth child and second daughter of a man with scholarly inclinations, who as a farmer had come to the capital to seek both fortune and rank.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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There is a long history of political polemics about the relation between journalism and government, and a substantial body of scholarly research and theory on that relationship.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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To friends and strangers alike, our unusual authorly posture—two spouses, both with academic backgrounds but neither presently working in academia, teaming up to write a trade book on a literary subject—is a source of bemusement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Rubio had graduated from college during the financial crisis and left Spain to continue his education abroad, returning in 2017 to take a prestigious academic position.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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