prof

noun

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  1. professor
  2. dean
  3. doctor
  4. instructor
Noun
  • The Trump administration's decision to allow Chinese firms to continue to purchase H20 chips is a major victory for the country, said Chris Miller, a Tufts University history professor and semiconductor expert.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Andrew Pavia, a professor and pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Utah, said the administration isn’t taking the outbreak seriously, and one social media post from the HHS secretary won’t cut it.
    — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
Definition of professor
Noun
  • Seidel and the university’s board of trustees, which met just before Wright was terminated as dean, have denied that his demotion was in retaliation for his refusing to transfer the funds.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • But it was trashed by H. L. Mencken, editor of the Baltimore Sun and dean of America‘s literary critics.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Definition of dean
Noun
  • Eventually, a third doctor removed it in the operating room.
    — Essence, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
  • During a procedure to remove the masses, doctors found two additional tumors in her lungs.
    — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Definition of doctor
Noun
  • The instructor, Thiago, told the Trial Guy to straddle a young blue belt named Eric, who began to teach him some moves from the mount.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The second case was a ski instructor, Daniel, who lived in Montchavin and had a chalet near Les Coches, a ski village five minutes up a switchback road by car.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2025
Definition of instructor
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