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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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My experience as a college and graduate-level professor with freshman students has, at times, been horrific.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“This is a bit unusual, fitting for this outbreak perhaps,” said Kalmia Kniel, professor of microbial food safety at the University of Delaware, by email.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

But it is also about power and political ideology, explained James Schamus, a screenwriter who once ran Focus Features and is now a Columbia University professor.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

Schiller, an MFA graduate of the University of Iowa and now an assistant professor of nonfiction at Texas Tech University, is a fluid writer.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

The 22-year-old professor of mathematics arrived in Graz on 11 April 1594.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Law professors and pundits often conflate these things, but they are not the same.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

Like college professors, hiring experts say they can tell when artificial intelligence does the writing.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Jeremy Stein and Karen Dynan, both Harvard professors, have written more favorably about the Fed’s large-balance-sheet policy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Most speakers were science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, professors who urged the board to bring back the SAT and ACT.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

She tells me about education courses in college in which professors advised future teachers that they had to win respect from students before they showed much of their own humanity.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove




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