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[prof] / prɒf /




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Arie Haagen-Smit, the Caltech smog prof, imagined in the 1950s that clean-running cars were imminent, “exhaust devices, catalytic devices … and maybe we start putting them in the cars in 1962 and maybe 1965.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

In the same issue of Science, a collaboration led by prof.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2024

But that may be too complicated a message for a movie in which even the smart one — ex-MIT prof Betty — triumphs not with her brain but with her stomach.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

"Unless China decarbonises, we're not going to beat climate change," says prof David Tyfield of the Lancaster Environment Centre.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2021

“I just had to help the prof here with long division.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin




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