professionalize
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Investors and stars like MrBeast are looking to professionalize a practice that has run into issues regarding transparency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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
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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
Zahn wanted to convey the pressure college coaches face in the increasingly professionalized world of college football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Iberdrola, an electric utility giant, and others stepped up with generous corporate support, a $10-million media-rights package was signed and the country’s women’s league was professionalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
It was not at all certain, then, how he would fare against the younger breed of highly professionalized butlers looking for posts.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Delo said the funding would allow Reform to spend £1 million a month professionalizing the party ahead of the 2029 election.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“It’s going to be huge because we are now professionalizing how we go to market, how we price things,” Cruz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
At what point does professionalizing our personal lives leech them of any spirit or spontaneity?
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
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
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
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