professorial

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Recent Examples of professorial After leaving her professorial position, Darcy started sharing free, educational content on OnlyFans and YouTube. Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025 Paul Bledsoe is a professorial lecturer at American University's Center for Environmental Policy. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025 Nicolas Cage went for a high-concept ghoul in Longlegs; Hugh Grant reveled in professorial malevolence in Heretic; Naomi Scott unraveled in the face of grinning death in Smile 2. Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024 The movie’s true set pieces are the professorial villain’s ostentatious monologues using fast food, musical plagiarism, and Monopoly as metaphors to point out how modern religions are just conspicuous iterations of what’s come before. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for professorial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
Adjective
  • The etude genre has evolved since its origins in the 17th century, from pedagogical exercises into works that stretch out emotionally as well as technically.
    Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2025
  • As with all pedagogical practices, the way educators think about, assign, and assess reading in the classroom changes over time.
    Nicole Donawho, JSTOR Daily, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Sure, director Michael Bay puts former British spy John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery) and bookish FBI agent Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) through all manner of car chases, explosions, gun battles, and a relationship with a former prom queen.
    Sarah Sprague, EW.com, 2 July 2025
  • Solar Power’s acoustic shampoo-commercial pop signified a degree of freedom from the usual rueful, bookish synth-pop grind.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The awards are based on criteria including scholastic ability, responsibility toward education and financial need, with a special emphasis on community service.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2025
  • Distinguished Cadet Honors were awarded to cadets with scholastic standing and all-around aptitude in NJROTC activities.
    Cadet Nadeen Willat, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • This family journey deeply shaped Fisher’s lifelong scholarly drive to chronicle the struggles and the triumphs of Black communities in the American West.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025
  • Of course, the sort of collection that attracts scholarly attention tends toward the rare and precious rather than Izod alligators.
    Libby Buck July 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Jesse makes a big point of that, because Jesse is a bit on the pedantic side.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Not to get too pedantic about it, but her latest look presents a wonderful learning opportunity for those of us looking to ace the art of dressing for this suffocating heat.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Studies show that the best predictor of future academic skills is the quantity and quality of personal interactions between a child and their parent or caregiver.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Research must move beyond academic journals and into clinical care.
    Keita Franklin, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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