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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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“My sense of her was someone who was really serious about her writing and had a very close relationship with Toni Morrison,” Dubois, now a history professor at the University of Virginia, said of Scott.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Researchers, including a Rutgers professor, have gained a clearer view of the biological changes associated with schizophrenia by directly measuring synaptic connections in the living human brain.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Frank Bowman, law professor and former federal and state prosecutor, writes in Slate about how lawmakers should approach this mighty task.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Veerle Bergink, a professor of psychiatry and the director of the Mount Sinai Women's Mental Health Center, is among the people working diligently to get postpartum psychosis included in the DSM-5.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

“He’s not materialistic in any obvious way,” said the professor.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Barely one per cent of professors at UK universities are black, so he was joining a small and highly visible minority in academia.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

At the time, there were only 150 Black professors out of some 23,000 across the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Of course, the real Bourdain did not propose such a ludicrous project, which the movie professors pass on after he’d already boasted to his family and friends that he’d gotten the fellowship.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Unfortunately, I have always struggled with disappointing authority figures: professors, bosses, priests, parents — and, apparently, severe-bunned bakers.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

The mountain was still in major lockdown since we didn’t know who we could trust, and the professors had set up a schedule to patrol the corridors twenty-four hours a day.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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