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professorship

[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /


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LeCun said he wasn’t going to leave New York or quit his professorship.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

The manuscript they’ve produced is apparently even superior to the recently published book that has put him in contention for the same professorship that George’s entire future is riding on.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

Fitting, then, that she would accept a prestigious guest professorship this year at a German art school.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2024

By 1991, he had moved to Seattle, which was his permanent home until 2006, when he accepted an offer of professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2023

At the age of twenty-two he returned to Glasgow University to take up a professorship in natural philosophy, a position he would hold for the next fifty-three years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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