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professor

[pruh-fes-er] / prəˈfɛs ər /


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"Is this an amazing company or is it ridiculously overvalued? The answer is yes," quipped Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU Stern.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

“Every day is a nail-biter,” said Douglas McCauley, director of the Benioff lab and a UC Santa Barbara professor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Researcher Cameron Egan, an ecologist and professor at USC, will extract DNA from each soil sample and send it for sequencing to learn what species of mycorrhizal fungi are present.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

As professor Richard Hasen puts it, Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion turns its back on everything the court has ever said about Section 2 of the VRA.

From Slate • May 19, 2026

I haven’t seen him in weeks; he’d left on a research trip with a professor.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse




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