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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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Today, as a professor in an immersive media design program, I still teach usability as one principle among others in building robust and meaningful interactions.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor and former federal prosecutor, said local federal judges may believe it would be “more disruptive to try and put somebody in when the administration will just fire them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

She met her second husband, Uriel Foa, at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, where he was a professor and she was studying psychology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The findings come from a Phase III clinical trial led by a professor at UCL.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

It was sometimes difficult to believe that Dr. Roland was a tenured professor in the Social Science Department of this, a distinguished college.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt