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Recent Examples of professorial
From the March 2024 issue: The rise of techno-authoritarianism
This is a surprising role for someone who started as almost a parody of professorial obscurity.
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Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
Lanky and bearded, often solemn in tone but with a ready edge of sarcasm, Towne could show a professorial air.
—Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 2 July 2024
Tour, a fit man in his mid-sixties, is courteous but playful, with salt-and-pepper hair that gives him the air of a more professorial version of Mr. Rogers.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
Trump became disenchanted by McMaster because the national security adviser was too professorial, trying to cram him with too much information.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2020
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Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
Lanky and bearded, often solemn in tone but with a ready edge of sarcasm, Towne could show a professorial air.
—Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 2 July 2024
Tour, a fit man in his mid-sixties, is courteous but playful, with salt-and-pepper hair that gives him the air of a more professorial version of Mr. Rogers.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
Trump became disenchanted by McMaster because the national security adviser was too professorial, trying to cram him with too much information.
—Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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In that same pedagogical spirit, your moment to shine on Super Bowl Sunday can be explaining who Charli XCX is to the straightest brother-in-law in your vicinity.—
Samantha Allen,
Them,
30 Jan. 2025
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What are the cultural, economic, and political currents that led us here? Series Reading lists, discussion guides, syllabi, pedagogical essays, and other free teaching resources for higher ed and secondary school faculty.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.—
Scott Brown,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2022
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Bryce Young is bookish, too.—
Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com,
al,
9 Dec. 2022
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This perhaps comes through most clearly in the film’s surprisingly considerate treatment of religion, especially in a scholastic environment.—
Ryan Swen,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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Here is an important one: Were the poll respondents made aware of the actual number of transgender students participating in scholastic sports relative to the overall number of students participating in those programs, based upon either local, state, or national statistics?—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Jan. 2025
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As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.—
Joshua Hunt,
New York Times,
12 June 2024
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Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves.—
Rachel Tashjian,
Harper's BAZAAR,
8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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Both winners will be announced at the FICA ceremony, establishing a new platform for recognizing both creative and scholarly contributions to regional cinema.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2025
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About 119,000 scholarly journal articles and conference papers are published globally every week, or more than 6 million a year.—
Guillaume Cabanac,
The Conversation,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The point was not the pedantic collection of information.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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Plus, in addition to bringing back master-of-disguise penguin villain Feathers McGraw, the movie features a convincing while never pedantic message about our dependence on technology and the pleasures of doing things by hand.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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Drug companies at the time approached these treatments with more skepticism, waiting longer to invest and letting universities and academic hospitals do the heavy lifting, said Ameet Sarpatwari, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School who studies the pharmaceutical industry.—
Robin Fields,
CNN,
17 Feb. 2025
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Being so much loved is going to help you much more in life than academic success alone.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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