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Recent Examples of professorial
Learning to Engage McMillon has an almost professorial air that’s articulate, polite and exudes competence — but his skill set was honed by long years of experience.
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Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
3 Feb. 2026
Gabriel has secrets hiding beneath his professorial veneer.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.
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Richard Hughes Iv,
STAT,
12 Jan. 2026
Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.
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Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
3 Feb. 2026
Gabriel has secrets hiding beneath his professorial veneer.
—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.
—
Richard Hughes Iv,
STAT,
12 Jan. 2026
Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.
—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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But many of these teachers come from graduate programs that prioritize theory over practice, and knowing various pedagogical approaches does not necessarily translate into teaching well.
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In Britain between the 1940s and the 1980s, university professors, especially those from Oxford and Cambridge, were esteemed not merely for their specialist knowledge or pedagogical value but for their wider contribution to civic life.
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The Album, Bryce Savage’s not-so-bookish gurglefest about femme fatales.
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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.
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Played by Ella Bruccoleri, the show’s Mary is recontextualized as a sweet, nerdy girl out of step with her time and beaten down by her mother’s assertions that her looks and personality will exclude her from a successful match.
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In the film, three nerdy high school kids throw a small birthday celebration that spirals into a massive, neighborhood-destroying riot involving thousands of people and a flamethrower.
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The Union’s move is a small reversal of a decades-long trend away from scholastic sports as a soccer development tool.
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Her work — rooted in teaching, scholastic research and mentoring — is continually focused on advancing social, racial and economic equity in secondary education classrooms.
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If tweedy free-speech absolutists and their aggrieved students are capable of finding common ground, this will be the issue that unites them.
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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.
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He was honored as a Distinguished Fellow by the same organization for his scholarly contributions to the field of regional science, according to his obituary.
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Miami Circle gets historic recognition Carr and other experts, with the support of Ryan Wheeler, then the state’s chief of archaeology, built a case that gradually came to mainstream scientific and scholarly acceptance.
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Both public school districts continue to outperform the state of Florida average testing marks for most academic subject and skill tests.
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Using basic academic terminology would place grants at risk of rejection or termination on political grounds.
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The best tended to use puns, literalization — turning an idiom into reality — and pedantic humor to delight and torment children in equal measures.
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In the context of a smartphone, this distinction can feel a little pedantic.
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