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Recent Examples of professorial
Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.
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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
George’s only hope of hanging onto the ridiculously extravagant life he’s pitched to Hedda is securing a professorial position at the local university.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 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
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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
George’s only hope of hanging onto the ridiculously extravagant life he’s pitched to Hedda is securing a professorial position at the local university.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
Adjective
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Weisz’s antiheroine is a middle-aged professor with chronic writer’s block and mounting insecurity about her potential irrelevance, both erotic and pedagogical.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
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According to German law, parents aren’t allowed to homeschool based on their religious or pedagogical convictions.—
Katrina Donham,
Parents,
25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Calgary, Alberta The third-largest city by population in Canada, Calgary offers a vibrant destination for literary enthusiasts that is a refreshing change of pace from the often sleepy, romantic bookish towns.—
Lara Kramer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Mar. 2026
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Those making more bookish and insular styles of the genre, like the Magnetic Fields and Belle and Sebastian, weren’t being worshipped as critical darlings; in some cases their records hadn’t made it to America yet.—
David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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This family-run business brings a delightful mix of humor with nerdy plant know-how.—
Teresa Woodard,
Midwest Living,
10 Apr. 2026
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This spring, the nerdy nostalgist can find several depictions of campus life on their small screen.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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The showcase has generated more than 5,100 scholarships and $164 million in scholastic aid since its inception.—
Jon Poorman,
Houston Chronicle,
31 Jan. 2026
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At the heart of this debate seems to be both a misunderstanding of the point of scholastic sports and a view, at least by some, that trans girls have an unfair physical advantage.—
Peter Jensen,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Jan. 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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Turner could not have known that his manifesto would define scholarly and popular understandings of American and western history for the next one hundred years.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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To be clear, there is little credible scholarly evidence that EdTech, in general, improves learning outcomes, and no conclusive evidence that generative AI improves learning outcomes over traditional human teaching.—
Dr. Timothy Scott,
Hartford Courant,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.—
Paul Sanchez Ruiz,
The Conversation,
6 Apr. 2026
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Employers report rising demands for creativity and critical analysis while simultaneously expressing frustration that traditional academic pathways aren’t developing those traits.—
Elan Gepner-Dales,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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