professorial

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Recent Examples of professorial Restrepo, who was wearing professorial glasses and a dark suit, went first. Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 The man was alone and smartly dressed in a button-down shirt, khaki pants and professorial eyeglasses. John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025 The picturesque front porches that define the town are abuzz with energetic cottagers who punctuate their days with cooking lessons, nature walks, yoga, professorial lectures, music and plays. Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025 Moreover, the professorial subjectivity problem of assessing student competence is historically an ongoing challenge. Nick Ladany, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for professorial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
Adjective
  • One-by-one the students came up to the mic to say silly phrases that Sheeran looped together to form a rhythm, earning praise from the teachers for his pedagogical skills.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This collaboration spurred me to reflect on college newspapers and my own pedagogical approach as a librarian to media literacy.
    Joshua Finnell, JSTOR Daily, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The mother-daughter dramedy – centered around fast-talking mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and her bookish teen daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) in their small, fictional Connecticut town of Stars Hollow – has cemented itself as a cult classic in TV history.
    Anika Reed, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Jennifer’s Body follows two polar opposite best friends, the outgoing Jennifer and bookish Needy (Amanda Seyfried), whose friendship takes a turn when the former embarks on a murderous rampage of her male classmates.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Johnson, who is short, with a salt-and-pepper beard, has a nerdy, understated demeanor.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Like, the nerdy part of that is very interesting to me.
    Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Morris played both baseball and football in high school, and was a scholastic All-State quarterback who reportedly turned down 20 collegiate offers to sign with the Phillies for $25,000 in 1960.
    Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • For true scholastic style, pair it with penny loafers or Mary Janes.
    Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 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
  • Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.
    Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
Adjective
  • Much scholarly attention is also paid to the science of electrical storage, enabling a body to function as a permanently recharged battery, and to the use of an enormous lightning-rod mechanism, which will harness lightning from atop an isolated tower, where Victor conducts his experiments.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The study, published on the open-access scholarly article archive, arxiv, has not yet been peer-reviewed.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What wasn't being collected are other research observations that are part of every hurricane season, including experiments conducted by NOAA's Hurricane Research Division and its academic partners, who were able to pay their scientists who flew with NOAA during Melissa.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Hann and Bich were strict and monitored not just Jennifer's academic performance, but also her extracurricular activities and social life.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025

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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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