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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

For many of the program’s students, the schooling offers a chance to professionalize their passion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026

In Ukraine, the added financial firepower is helping professionalize outfits that began in garages and military units—giving them a chance to compete abroad with Western players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

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

He went on to Harvard Business School, and professionalized his knack for assessing risk and knowing when to bet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

“These are highly professionalized individuals with a lot of experience in bargaining and conflict negotiation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

Though the biggest change could come from outside the bowl system as college football moves to a more professionalized model and player compensation agreements mandate postseason participation.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 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

But experts question whether her strategies — expanding community policing and professionalizing cops — would transfer to a national level.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

At what point does professionalizing our personal lives leech them of any spirit or spontaneity?

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

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

In 1996, the government focused its attention on implementing an ambitious economic reform program and professionalizing its parliament.

From The 1999 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency