Thesaurus results for PROFESSOR

professor

noun

as in doctor

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 professor In 2024, Boise State professor Jeffrey Lyons told the Idaho Statesman that low turnout in primary elections could be cause for concern. —

Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 20 May 2026 Stanford professor Li founded World Labs in 2024 to focus on giving AI a richer sense of 3D space and of how objects exist and interact within it. —

Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 20 May 2026 Leading the way are first author Megan Fitzhugh, an assistant professor of neurosciences in the UCSD School of Medicine, and Judy Pa, a neurosciences professor and the study’s corresponding author. —

Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026 The paper is the most comprehensive survey of large mammal ecology in the wild in this region ever performed, Tim Mousseau, a professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina who has been studying Chernobyl for more than 20 years, told ABC News. —

Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for professor

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Noun

There are doctors, like anaesthetists, who want to do things to patients.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
Yet doctors eventually assured her that physical activity for a recovering pediatric leukemia patient would be beneficial to his quality of life.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026