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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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Reserves are a useful form of liquidity for banks, said Darrell Duffie, a finance professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

The authors—Mr. Dutkiewicz is an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute, Mr. Rosenberg is an associate professor at Duke University—harbor few illusions about the past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“If you copy-paste chunks of ChatGPT with minimal edits, then Pangram is fairly accurate,” Tuhin Chakrabarty, an assistant professor of computer science at SUNY, told me.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Ramesh Srinivasan, a professor of information studies at UCLA, said these kinds of deals are the “new normal” and that “almost every single industry is being sort of eaten up by the Pac-Man of AI.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

The Harvard professor was known for his vast knowledge of international affairs—and his habit of insulting whoever was not in the room.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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