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Recent Examples of professorial
In academia, Soyinka has held professorial and visiting positions at universities around the world.
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
George’s only hope of hanging onto the ridiculously extravagant life he’s pitched to Hedda is securing a professorial position at the local university.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
The voice turned more professorial, clinical.
—Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
The man was alone and smartly dressed in a button-down shirt, khaki pants and professorial eyeglasses.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
George’s only hope of hanging onto the ridiculously extravagant life he’s pitched to Hedda is securing a professorial position at the local university.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 28 Oct. 2025
The voice turned more professorial, clinical.
—Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
The man was alone and smartly dressed in a button-down shirt, khaki pants and professorial eyeglasses.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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Much as parents have had to educate themselves on phonics, critical race theory, and other pedagogical topics to evaluate what their children are learning in school, parents will also have to learn about AI when choosing a school for their children.—
Jonah Davids,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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Washington and Lee has accordingly established a modern reputation for intellectual pluralism and pedagogical excellence.—
Blake D. Morant,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Travelers who want a base with a bookish atmosphere, where renowned writers crafted masterpieces, and with plenty of cozy corners to dive into a good book, have some page-turning prospects, from London to San Diego’s Coronado Island.—
Lindsay Cohn,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2026
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.—
Skyler Trepel,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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In the iconic teen movie, Rachael Leigh Cook plays a nerdy girl who, in one scene, undergoes a makeover and rocks a red spaghetti strap minidress with a brown bob.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
6 Feb. 2026
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Nothing in the tiny, nerdy world of trivia confers more authority than winning the World Quizzing Championships.—
Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
2 Feb. 2026
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At the heart of this debate seems to be both a misunderstanding of the point of scholastic sports and a view, at least by some, that trans girls have an unfair physical advantage.—
Peter Jensen,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Jan. 2026
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In a white paper released in October, the committee recommends moving the men’s game, and perhaps the women’s, from the current fall-only schedule to one that covers the entire scholastic year and culminates in an April playoff festival.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
12 Dec. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
5 Oct. 2018
Adjective
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The fact that Katherine had been institutionalized may have tainted her scholarly reputation.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Brown-Grier argued that this knowledge gap is not just a scholarly problem but a governance one.—
Marybeth Gasman,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Robb demonstrates excellence in both her academic and extracurricular pursuits.—
Darla Rivera,
Oklahoman,
9 Feb. 2026
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However, the ability to choose an educational environment that truly fits our child has not only improved their academic performance, but also their overall happiness and outlook on life.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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