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Recent Examples of professorial
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.
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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
Ball of Fire features Stanwyck as a savvy nightclub singer hiding out with stuffy academic Cooper and his endearing crop of professorial colleagues.
—Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
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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
Ball of Fire features Stanwyck as a savvy nightclub singer hiding out with stuffy academic Cooper and his endearing crop of professorial colleagues.
—Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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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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Effective Content Delivery Methods Sound pedagogical methods should drive SEL design.Hashim Hayat, Forbes, 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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My scholarly research has identified emerging climate risk here due to the wide range of extreme weather events experienced and the number of vulnerable, less-resilient communities.Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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In the 1880s, in scholarly Cambridge, Massachusetts, a professed divinator has kept for years a large business-like and soberly worded advertisement of his services.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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Thomas was both more romantic and more pedantic than his son had imagined.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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So ultimately, the remedy for this problem goes beyond pedantic lessons in medical risk data.Amanda Montañez, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024
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And that’s not an accident, according to academic researchers, doctors, politicians, community leaders, and dozens of other people KFF Health News interviewed.Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Miller said there not only needs to be a focus on core academic programs but the integration of other programs like STEM, art and vocational training, commonly known as Career Technical Education.Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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