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British-born businessmen Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne said they each gave £36 million, equivalent to $48.7 million, to Reform UK to help professionalize the upstart party ahead of the next general election expected by 2029.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Harfuch "sought to professionalize, to modernize the intelligence agency to go after crimes," said Gerardo Rodriguez, an academic expert in national security who met Harfuch in 2018.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

One of the efforts to professionalize the process is ICEList, a web database created by Dominick Skinner, an Irish activist based in the Netherlands.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026

For many of the program’s students, the schooling offers a chance to professionalize their passion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026

Shawn wanted to professionalize the operation, to invest the profits from the Malad job in new equipment; Dad wanted things to stay the same.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

But as we round the first corner, almost all of the exhibits are the work of amateurs, conscripted from civilian life and professionalized into name, rank and number.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

After World War II, the American military was more professionalized, and by the 1970s, the unpopularity of the Vietnam War made military school less appealing.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

As U.S. foreign policy became more professionalized, some historians have argued, the role of overseeing and executing it became a better fit for capable administrators than aspiring presidents.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Among the offices housed in the East Wing is the Office of the First Lady, first professionalized by Eleanor Roosevelt during her husband’s administration.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

Could I run some sort of after-school program, a professionalized version of what I’d done for Czerny at Princeton?

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Backers, including venture capital investors and the YouTube star MrBeast, are now aiming to cash in by professionalizing the strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

In the seventeenth century, as its enemies grew stronger, the empire became more inward-looking, focusing less on external expansion and more on resolving domestic affairs, professionalizing its bureaucracy, and conducting internal reforms.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

It's not that love is not an important ingredient, but you can't manufacture love, and you should start with professionalizing the work.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022

Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 803, the Peer Support Specialist Certification Program Act, which is the first step to professionalizing the work of peer support specialists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2021

Irrespective of the professionalizing of philosophy, the ideas philosophers discuss are still those in which Western civilization has been bred.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode