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The ugly facts of the Cornell 7 case are in dispute, and we don’t profess to know who is right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

He continues to profess his confidence that Newey and Honda will eventually produce the best car and engine.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Similarly, those in the media or the foreign policy establishment who profess dismay that China’s rulers now view the U.S. as a global equal are also failing to observe the obvious.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

While reading Catherine profess, “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same,” one doesn’t need the aid of a film’s visuals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

It was a strange thing to hear from a Korean man, and I wondered what circumstance would have had to arise for my father to profess openly a feeling like that.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The exhibit, which professes to illustrate storytelling through art in its earliest manifestations, is a jarring introduction to a museum that houses 1,300 original works.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Yet it simultaneously professes anxiety about an Asian American who has decidedly not stood apart from American institutions and culture: After graduating from Yale Law School, Wang clerked for two Supreme Court justices.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

In Mr. Mian’s travelogue, we meet person after person who professes adherence to Russian Orthodox Christianity, but no one speaks of salvation, sacraments or even Jesus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

To his credit, author Michael Scherer professes good intentions in featuring Kennedy in such an adulatory light: to help bridge some of the political division plaguing our country.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2025

“I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,—‘I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

"It's the end of the glitter," professed president Nasser Al-Khelaifi after years of lavish spending, ushering out the "flashy, bling-bling" era.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“In the past, I supported him because of the policies he professed to support and passionately campaigned on,” Greene wrote.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

In the probation report after the conviction, Brambles again professed his innocence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Susan B. Anthony, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman were among those who professed their belief in the revelatory power of skulls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Joyce professed not to care, but it pained Joe that he could not take her there.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Then there were the officials whose job is literally to know things, professing not to know anything.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Even before the GPT-2 paper, A.I. insiders have been issuing apocalyptic, god-in-the-machine proclamations about this software, professing fears that observers rarely followed up on and that almost never lived up to scrutiny.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

Haemon will confront his father, professing the depth of his own love, when Antigone’s life is threatened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

"It is great that he is comfortable visibly professing and celebrating his faith," says Yunus Lunat, a grassroots coach and former chair of the Football Association's race equality advisory board.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

I didn’t know anything at the time; Dennis had been as cryptic and evasive as ever, Jack professing nothing.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee