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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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Hitting that threshold doesn’t make the states’ case conclusive, said Barak Orbach, a law and business professor at the University of Arizona.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

A UC spokesperson and the chair of the admissions board, UC Riverside professor David Volz, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

"That's really going to drive their behaviour, and they're going to be potentially more unpredictable than at other times of the year," the Colorado State University professor said.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

You don’t have to be a law professor to understand the logical tension there, and yet Roberts really didn’t try very hard to persuade anyone that that was a reasonable distinction.

From Slate Jul. 13, 2026

He asked Gary Gorton, a Yale professor who had built the model that Cassano used to price the credit default swaps: Gorton guessed that the piles were no more than 10 percent subprime.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

They pointed to recent scholarship by law professors that raised questions about the accepted understanding of the 14th Amendment and the citizenship rule.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

By contrast, quotes from subject matter experts, particularly university professors, were generally far more accurate.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

Thank goodness professors with integrity are refusing to go along.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

University professors folded Princeton’s climate plan into their lessons across the country.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

Thankfully one of my favorite professors, Professor Abrams, had been there that day, and he’d sat down with me and talked for hours about it all.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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