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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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Joel Negin, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, said Australia's measures in 1996 largely worked because they were part of a broad suite of measures implemented "very quickly" after the massacre.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Her third husband, Charles Kahn, a longtime philosophy professor at Penn, died in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Shohreh Farzan is an associate professor of population and public health at USC.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Jake Bailey, a professor at the University of Minnesota who studies how microbes influence Earth's systems, said the findings challenge long-standing assumptions about these rock structures.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

“Some of the greatest intellectuals come from Germany,” the professor replied.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman