profess
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But consumers wouldn’t know that from their advertisements, which profess high-quality ingredients and rigorous quality control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
Ignorance about the city we profess to love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
He continues to profess his confidence that Newey and Honda will eventually produce the best car and engine.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
I tell her that I profess God’s goodness and mercy, but what I love most truly is his marvelous creature, my son.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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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
They need to know what she’ll say if someone professes falling in love with her, for example, or if she’s presented with an unsafe situation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
He leaves, but she runs through the streets to chase Conrad - soundtracked by Taylor Swift's Out of the Woods - and professes her love on his train and says she chooses him.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
The first, which will perhaps become increasingly important in an inquisitive age which professes to still value privacy, makes it possible to obtain sensitive information about a group of people without compromising any person’s privacy.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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"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
There is a contrast here between the professed desire for caution in theory and pedal to the metal in practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
With this time-shaping device called the Chronovisor, Father Pellegrino Ernetti professed to have seen footage of the crucified Christ and even enjoyed a lost play staged by an ancient Roman dramatist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The next thing I think you start seeing is the court becoming interested in, despite its professed adherence to textualism, reading these statutes with an eyebrow raised.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Because the genius thing,” Hassan went on as if Colin hasn’t just professed his love, “is nothing. That's just about wanting to be famous.”
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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Mrs. Paxton released an ad professing to address “the elephant in the room,” in which she urged Texans to get “the whole team across the finish line”—without naming her estranged husband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Then there were the officials whose job is literally to know things, professing not to know anything.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 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
“The league has been professing doom and gloom for decades.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
Aerys Targaryen must have thought that his gods had answered his prayers when Lord Tywin Lannister appeared before the gates of King's Landing with an army twelve thousand strong, professing loyalty.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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