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profs

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plural of prof

as in professors

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Recruit interns through an active marketing campaign that includes targeting certification hubs, career fairs and on-campus recruiting, and liaising with department heads and professors.

— Michelle Sims, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Dhillon also expressed concern over funding for professors’ work and for laboratories that deal with potentially sensitive information from a national security perspective.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026

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From 2010 to 2024, cancer drug revenue to doctors and hospitals increased from about $9 billion to nearly $36 billion, according to research by Aaron Mitchell of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
There are so many ways that the hospital can and must accommodate doctors.

— Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026

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The district has 12 instructors working toward obtaining their teaching licenses, the district said.

— Sofi Zeman August 19, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
In the career department, there’s a chef and a car saleswoman, along with several teachers, tech recruiters and fitness instructors.

— Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026

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But for educators, there is a growing consensus that AI literacy is about more than learning how to use generative AI and write good prompts.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026
Convocation was an investment in preparing and aligning the thousands of educators and employees responsible for serving Fort Worth ISD students every day.

— Lacey Beasley, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

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