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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

Running one of the most important, influential venues in the nation, she also helped professionalize the concert business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

The city has for years sought to professionalize the ranks of interventionists, providing new oversight and training.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

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

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

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

Around this time—1834—the word scientist was first coined, beginning an era that gradually professionalized the study of the natural world, and began to divide it into ever more specialized fields.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

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

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

More recent efforts have focused on professionalizing these peers.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 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