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Recent Examples of professorial
Lanky and bearded, often solemn in tone but with a ready edge of sarcasm, Towne could show a professorial air.
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Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 2 July 2024
Tour, a fit man in his mid-sixties, is courteous but playful, with salt-and-pepper hair that gives him the air of a more professorial version of Mr. Rogers.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
Trump became disenchanted by McMaster because the national security adviser was too professorial, trying to cram him with too much information.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2020
That professorial spirit is one of the reasons the Steelers signed Peterson to a two-year deal last spring.
—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
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Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 2 July 2024
Tour, a fit man in his mid-sixties, is courteous but playful, with salt-and-pepper hair that gives him the air of a more professorial version of Mr. Rogers.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
Trump became disenchanted by McMaster because the national security adviser was too professorial, trying to cram him with too much information.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2020
That professorial spirit is one of the reasons the Steelers signed Peterson to a two-year deal last spring.
—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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Central to this mission are human educators, who play a vital role in maintaining pedagogical accuracy and fostering meaningful connections with students.Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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The technology can serve as an interesting pedagogical tool.Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.Scott Brown, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
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Bryce Young is bookish, too.Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2022
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Sanders won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is given to the nation’s top quarterback who best exemplifies character, scholastic and athletic achievement.Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Starting this scholastic year, the program is donating 175,000 euros to institutions located in the U.S. and U.K. Plans are afoot to expand globally in the future.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
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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
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These research reports and scholarly articles explain how.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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Researchers often comb through reams of scholarly works.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
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The primary impact was to tournament players and to the pedantic rule grammar police.Todd Boss, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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My goal is always to do it not in a preachy, pedantic way [but] just to explore these topics through personal stories and journeys by the people who are the most deeply impacted by them.Sunil Sadarangani, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
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Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak, an academic power couple who run a lab at Cornell University, had been searching for superconductivity in TMDs since Jarillo-Herrero’s blockbuster twisted-graphene discovery in 2018.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
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In the contemporary world, the Divine Nine boasts diverse growth and development programs, serving their respective communities through camaraderie, academic excellence, and educational, cultural, and economic activities.Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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