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Recent Examples of professorial
Lanky and bearded, often solemn in tone but with a ready edge of sarcasm, Towne could show a professorial air.
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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
That professorial spirit is one of the reasons the Steelers signed Peterson to a two-year deal last spring.
—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
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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
That professorial spirit is one of the reasons the Steelers signed Peterson to a two-year deal last spring.
—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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The technology can serve as an interesting pedagogical tool.Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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The greatest point of pedagogical interest here is how, in addition to research, history, style emulation, and memory and observation exercises, this course aims to culminate in a field trip to Ireland.Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
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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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Starting this scholastic year, the program is donating 175,000 euros to institutions located in the U.S. and U.K. Plans are afoot to expand globally in the future.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
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Public health, the work of public health cannot be principally scholastic.Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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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
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As higher education continued to develop, facilities and programs burnished scholarly reputations as modern universities emerged in cities like Paris and Bologna.Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Young Ed Klum was musical, scholarly, and athletic.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Dec. 2024
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In Korea and Vietnam, the Soviet Union and its partners stalled negotiations, insisting on the most pedantic points, accusing the U.S. of bad faith, and starting with outlandish demands that, if the U.S. were to satisfy them, would have amounted to capitulation.Niall Ferguson, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
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The 63-page booklet was classic Sinclair: heartfelt, pedantic and too ahead of its time for its own good.Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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The Los Angeles Unified School District reported 11 incidents of nitrous oxide possession during the 2023-24 academic school year.Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Most men’s rights activists, however, turned their attention to laws at the state and local level during the 1980s and 1990s, along with academic understandings of gender violence.Theresa Iker / Made by History, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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