How to Use professionalize in a Sentence

professionalize

verb

• The country is professionalizing the military.
• That’s changed, in part thanks to Mr. Clarke’s vision to professionalize the game.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
• Hoover was brought in to clean up and professionalize it.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 11 May 2017
• The act would both professionalize the medical practice and would allow the surgery schools to use and dissect the corpses of the poor.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 17 Mar. 2018
• Since becoming professionalized in the early ’90s, the hobby has come out of the woods and onto the field.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• The moves were meant to build a fan culture and professionalize local teams.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2018
• The union helped to professionalize the business of tapping maple trees for their sugary sap.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2021
• Forensic science — the kind that traces the grooves in bullets, the mark of a shoe, or the scrape of a tool — emerged in the early 20th century as a way to professionalize police work.
  — Michelle Legro, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2018
• For the past two years, Caldwell’s overseen a big push to expand, professionalize and train Afghan soldiers and cops.
  — Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 26 Sep. 2011
• But for at least two decades—as the marathon has professionalized, and the world record dropped to within a few minutes of two hours—there has been a debate about if, or when, the mark could be broken.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
• While the goal of Russia’s 2008 revamp was to fully professionalize the armed forces, around a third of personnel are short-term conscripts.
  — Ann M. Simmons, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• At the same time, there was an effort made to professionalize the executive structure of Vice.
  — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
• There had been only four previous deaths in the line of duty since the city’s fire department had been professionalized in the early 1890s.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2017
• Look at how Finland professionalized teaching in the last 30 years.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
• His goal from the get-go was to professionalize the office and increase its ability to collect and catalogue records.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Strunk is among those in the field who argue that private capital is helping to professionalize what has long been a mom-and-pop industry.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 29 July 2022
• But Krafcik, who joined Waymo in 2015, professionalized and sped up the research-heavy effort.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
• With 12 of the 16 men’s clubs already having women’s teams, La Liga was able to coordinate efforts to professionalize the game.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
• As the field started to professionalize, Klári’s coding work started to taper off.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
• But since the formation of the top-tier Women’s Super League in England in 2010, the game has seen record investment, as the elite men’s clubs made genuine efforts to professionalize the women’s teams.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
• On paper, Lutsenko seemed the man to professionalize the justice system.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• From time to time over the past three years, Gleason and his finance director, Dolly Miller, have helped Wynkoop professionalize the town’s operation on their days off, at a rate of $70 an hour.
  — Jerry Fallstrom, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Convincing—just like the new narrative that a military man for a chief of staff will professionalize this team of knife-wielding infants.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 3 Aug. 2017
• It was expected that Wick would professionalize the mom-and-pop-store nature of NR’s corporate affairs.
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
• Reese hopes that hourly workers will become salaried employees as the field expands and professionalizes.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Their presence has professionalized a mom-and-pop sector.
  — Ella Koeze, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• Amini noted that when the Coalition for Change was launched, its aims were three-fold: to professionalize the industry, invest in its talent and create an ecosystem of respect.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
• Later, Ghalibaf became chief of Iran’s uniformed police and, in contrast to his earlier hard-line stance, is said to have professionalized the force and curbed many of its excesses.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 13 May 2017
• The city has for years sought to professionalize the ranks of interventionists, providing new oversight and training.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• Her campaign platform builds on that success, with proposals like setting up a national intelligence unit or professionalizing the police.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024