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professorship

[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /


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LeCun said he wasn’t going to leave New York or quit his professorship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

By 1991, he had moved to Seattle, which was his permanent home until 2006, when he accepted an offer of professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023

After emigrating from South Korea in his early 30s, he earned a doctorate in education at Indiana University Bloomington and eventually moved to rural Kentucky for an associate professorship at a small Christian university.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023

Robert Reinecke was appointed to a junior professorship at JGU's Institute of Geography in May 2023.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2023

At the age of twenty-two he returned to Glasgow University to take up a professorship in natural philosophy, a position he would hold for the next fifty-three years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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