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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

Running one of the most important, influential venues in the nation, she also helped professionalize the concert business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

The city has for years sought to professionalize the ranks of interventionists, providing new oversight and training.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

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

After World War II, the American military was more professionalized, and by the 1970s, the unpopularity of the Vietnam War made military school less appealing.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

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

He went on to Harvard Business School, and professionalized his knack for assessing risk and knowing when to bet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

Among the offices housed in the East Wing is the Office of the First Lady, first professionalized by Eleanor Roosevelt during her husband’s administration.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2025

It was not at all certain, then, how he would fare against the younger breed of highly professionalized butlers looking for posts.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

“It’s going to be huge because we are now professionalizing how we go to market, how we price things,” Cruz said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

At what point does professionalizing our personal lives leech them of any spirit or spontaneity?

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

In the seventeenth century, as its enemies grew stronger, the empire became more inward-looking, focusing less on external expansion and more on resolving domestic affairs, professionalizing its bureaucracy, and conducting internal reforms.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

In 1996, the government focused its attention to implementing an ambitious economic reform program and professionalizing its parliament.

From The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency