professionalize
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Harfuch "sought to professionalize, to modernize the intelligence agency to go after crimes," said Gerardo Rodriguez, an academic expert in national security who met Harfuch in 2018.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
One of the efforts to professionalize the process is ICEList, a web database created by Dominick Skinner, an Irish activist based in the Netherlands.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
For many of the program’s students, the schooling offers a chance to professionalize their passion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
In Ukraine, the added financial firepower is helping professionalize outfits that began in garages and military units—giving them a chance to compete abroad with Western players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Shawn wanted to professionalize the operation, to invest the profits from the Malad job in new equipment; Dad wanted things to stay the same.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
As U.S. foreign policy became more professionalized, some historians have argued, the role of overseeing and executing it became a better fit for capable administrators than aspiring presidents.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Zahn wanted to convey the pressure college coaches face in the increasingly professionalized world of college football.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
“These are highly professionalized individuals with a lot of experience in bargaining and conflict negotiation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
“In one sense, it professionalized Zulily. It made that leap from mid-startup to ‘we have to be serious now,’ ” the former engineer said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
Could I run some sort of after-school program, a professionalized version of what I’d done for Czerny at Princeton?
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Delo said the funding would allow Reform to spend £1 million a month professionalizing the party ahead of the 2029 election.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Their job satisfaction worries me, even as I’m encouraged by how steadily the field is professionalizing.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026
But experts question whether her strategies — expanding community policing and professionalizing cops — would transfer to a national level.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
At what point does professionalizing our personal lives leech them of any spirit or spontaneity?
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
Irrespective of the professionalizing of philosophy, the ideas philosophers discuss are still those in which Western civilization has been bred.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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