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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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However bookish my ideal of it, going to Antarctica aligned with my idea of myself as tough, independent, and not old.—
Cree LeFavour,
New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2026
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Thomas Harris grew up in the South as a bookish outcast, reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jonathan Swift.—
Costa Beavin Pappas,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The deceptively low-key humor of Demetri Martin was once labeled nerdy or alternative, given his smart one-liners, on-stage drawings and overall subtly.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
5 Mar. 2026
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The question feels like the lead up to a nerdy joke.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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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In a white paper released in October, the committee recommends moving the men’s game, and perhaps the women’s, from the current fall-only schedule to one that covers the entire scholastic year and culminates in an April playoff festival.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
12 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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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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Leslie Hairston, a former City Council colleague of Preckwinkle’s whose South Side ward abutted hers, said Preckwinkle’s scholarly disposition shouldn’t be mistaken for indifference.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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Specifically, the study found the PATM patients emitted more petrochemicals, organosulfur compounds, and some aldehydes (including 39 times the normal amount of toluene, a chemical found in crude oil), among other distinctions—findings published in the scholarly journal Scientific Reports in 2023.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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For professionals who work with contracts, reports, invoices, or academic documents, PDF Agile consolidates essential PDF functions into a single lifetime license without ongoing subscription fees.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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They are left scarred and live on quietly together as their academic careers fall apart.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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