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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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He was a young economics professor at Chittagong University in Bangladesh visiting a village during a nationwide famine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

"There's no denying anymore that there is an issue with child safety on the platforms," Alexis Shore Ingber, a communications law expert and a professor at Syracuse University, said.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

“He identified a previously invisible level of anger and frustration,” said Dan Schnur, a longtime politics professor at USC, UC Berkeley and Pepperdine University, of Pratt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Dahlia also speaks with Andrew Weissmann, law professor at New York University and a veteran federal prosecutor, about President Trump’s latest nomination for attorney general and the state of the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

A more helpful measurement perhaps is that it was four times the salary of the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge: so let’s say £400,000.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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