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Harfuch "sought to professionalize, to modernize the intelligence agency to go after crimes," said Gerardo Rodriguez, an academic expert in national security who met Harfuch in 2018.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

One of the efforts to professionalize the process is ICEList, a web database created by Dominick Skinner, an Irish activist based in the Netherlands.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026

Running one of the most important, influential venues in the nation, she also helped professionalize the concert business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

The reforms were cast as a way to help further professionalize women’s soccer in the country and promote equal pay.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Shawn wanted to professionalize the operation, to invest the profits from the Malad job in new equipment; Dad wanted things to stay the same.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

As U.S. foreign policy became more professionalized, some historians have argued, the role of overseeing and executing it became a better fit for capable administrators than aspiring presidents.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Indiana’s rise has happened as college football’s gone sideways, shedding its phony amateurism for something professionalized and completely amok.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Among the offices housed in the East Wing is the Office of the First Lady, first professionalized by Eleanor Roosevelt during her husband’s administration.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

Abroad, the Women’s Super League did not become fully professionalized until 2018.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Around this time—1834—the word scientist was first coined, beginning an era that gradually professionalized the study of the natural world, and began to divide it into ever more specialized fields.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Delo said the funding would allow Reform to spend £1 million a month professionalizing the party ahead of the 2029 election.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Their job satisfaction worries me, even as I’m encouraged by how steadily the field is professionalizing.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

The strategy is built on professionalizing law enforcement and implementing the sorts of data-driven and community policing models used in many U.S. cities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

In the seventeenth century, as its enemies grew stronger, the empire became more inward-looking, focusing less on external expansion and more on resolving domestic affairs, professionalizing its bureaucracy, and conducting internal reforms.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Irrespective of the professionalizing of philosophy, the ideas philosophers discuss are still those in which Western civilization has been bred.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode