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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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This pedagogical vision of democratic cooperation between students and teachers resulted in much successful collaboration.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026
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Church’s landscapes themselves had pedagogical intent, and the lessons were not just scientific but ethical, spiritual, patriotic.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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This peaceful hotel feels like a library—warm, bookish, and sanctuary-like—though most guests congregate in quiet nooks between the hibiscus flowers, grapefruit trees, and pines that predate the property.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 May 2026
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Lush, dark wood shelving and the rolling library ladder of every bookish person's dreams complete the fantasy.—
Nathanael Gassett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But Tesla Isn’t Detroit California has always had plenty of nerdy green-leaning buyers.—
Brooke Crothers,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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First, Gibson is a self-confident if nerdy music therapist — and a wannabe pop composer — as George.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
9 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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When not identified early, this can potentially derail a student’s scholastic trajectory from the very first days of school.—
Sherri Helvie,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 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
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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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About half of the ensembles were created within the past decade, which relays an of-the-times show versus an overly scholarly one.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
4 May 2026
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Your confidence can grow when scientists have performed a bunch of related research that’s gone through peer review, been published in scholarly journals and mostly points in the same direction.—
Jeffrey A. Lee,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
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The idea of intersectionality is deceptively and seductively simple—too simple, doubters sometimes think, to require an academic theory.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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And the he general pattern of interest around Orwell points to something more durable than his novels’ futurist menace or academic nostalgia.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
4 May 2026
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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