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In January, he warned against "two-faced cadres" who profess political loyalty but defy orders and act in their self-interest.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

But still, it gave me the courage to profess my love to her.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Florian Zeller’s “Bunker” at least implicates its characters in the politics it professes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

In the lyrics, the singer professes his love for a girl called Celeste over a melancholy piano line, saying: "I hear her voice each time I take a breath".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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

He professes a love for James Franco, drinking Guinness, thrifting, dancing in random bathrooms and delivering confessions from bed.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 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

"I always think I'm the best but everyone has their own opinion," professed the Frenchman, now the all-time World Cup top goalscorer.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 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

Furthermore, its professed goals are not exactly realistic.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Johnson professed his commitment to the goal of “the full assimilation of more than twenty million Negroes into American life,” and ensured the passage of comprehensive civil rights legislation.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Back in 2016, Taco Bell introduced its limited-time “quesalupa” to the Canadian market by calling on everyday fans to read scripts professing their love for the product in appropriately cheesy, ’80s-style dating videos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

After the Edwards' crisis, it launched a review of its culture, professing its intention to stamp out bad behaviour.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

He stopped playing games with us, and one day he approached Janae with a letter professing his undying love for her.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi