Thesaurus results for PROFESSORS

professors

noun

plural of professor

as in doctors

a teacher especially of the highest rank at a college or university a professor of chemistry Professor Williams will be teaching the class.

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Recent Examples of professors Instead of focusing primarily on outcomes, professors and clinics should be alert to burnout appearing not only as low performance but also as perfectionism, emotional shutdown, avoidance or people-pleasing. —

Sharon A. Kuhn, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 Harvard’s professors clearly agree. —

Sage Lattman, airmail.news, 28 May 2026 Research from professors of sociology Alexandra Kalev at Tel Aviv University and Frank Dobbin at Harvard University found that corporate programs supporting work-life balance are more successful at promoting diversity among managers than the most popular racial equity initiatives. —

Beth Kowitt, Mercury News, 27 May 2026 The only people who truly need to know some subset of the Great Books are humanities majors, humanities PhDs, and humanities professors. —

Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 Reach out to your professors, your internship supervisors, your parents’ colleagues, your alumni network. —

Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026 The study, released earlier this week, was a collaboration between professors in the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard, the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford and researchers at Dartmouth University. —

Samuel O’Neal 19, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026 By then, Leonard Jeffries was one of the most controversial college professors in the country. —

Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Today’s guest column is from professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. —

Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 18 May 2026

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Meanwhile, doctors working in eastern DRC are hammering home the message that people should avoid touching anyone who may have Ebola, stop unnecessary physical contact like hugging with anyone, and avoid touching dead animals.

— Erikas Mwisi, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
The doctors are meticulous about the medical side of operations, spending two years cherry picking the best new technologies and recruiting a team of doctors and therapists from some of Europe’s most respected spas, including Lanserhof, Chenot, and the Mayr clinics.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026