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Recent Examples of professorial
Noticeably out of place with his full head of gray hair, rectangular glasses and professorial demeanor, Kennedy wandered among the crowd of cops and deputies, eyes peeled for suspicious ink.
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Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
His tone can be professorial with occasional flashes of bone-dry humor.
—Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
His conversational style in interviews is pensive and soft-spoken, almost professorial, which hooked up to the note of insistence just underneath the angel-cake vocal beauty.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
After leaving her professorial position, Darcy started sharing free, educational content on OnlyFans and YouTube.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
His tone can be professorial with occasional flashes of bone-dry humor.
—Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
His conversational style in interviews is pensive and soft-spoken, almost professorial, which hooked up to the note of insistence just underneath the angel-cake vocal beauty.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
After leaving her professorial position, Darcy started sharing free, educational content on OnlyFans and YouTube.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
Adjective
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One of her most powerful arguments is for the use of intergroup dialogue as a core pedagogical practice.—
Marybeth Gasman,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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The etude genre has evolved since its origins in the 17th century, from pedagogical exercises into works that stretch out emotionally as well as technically.—
Luke Schulze,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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The once bookish nerd is now seemingly confident and has caught the attention of ladies at his school.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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Alex is much more bookish, for example, although Cole is clever and can be academic and is in no way some silly, stupid jock or anything— but, in the obvious ways — and Cole is more sporty in the obvious ways.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The city has been taken over by a bunch of evil gangs and so the nerdy Scott Pilgrim and his pals, including Ramona Flowers and Lucas Lee come to the rescue.—
Joshua Lamb,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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The character was kind, genuine, neurotic, a bit nerdy, a hugger with a heart of gold and endearingly funny.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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For birthdays, scholastic achievements and other random celebrations, my parents would bring out that red plate for me or my siblings.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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As Kolade attests, significant challenges exist in both scholastic funding and the supply chain.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Aug. 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
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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As astronomy embraced mathematics and observation during the Scientific Revolution, astrology increasingly lost its scholarly legitimacy and was pushed to the margins.—
Christopher P. Scheitle,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
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Joshi says teachers also tend to be a vocal crowd that isn’t shy about sharing their scholarly opinions.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jesse makes a big point of that, because Jesse is a bit on the pedantic side.—
Peter J Reilly,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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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
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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