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professorship

[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /
NOUN
chair
Synonyms
STRONG
captain chairperson director fellowship helm instructorship leader monitor principal throne tutor tutorship
WEAK
position of control professorate

Example Sentences

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LeCun said he wasn’t going to leave New York or quit his professorship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Giemulla, based in Berlin, is a prominent European aviation lawyer who also has an adjunct professorship at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2024

Fitting, then, that she would accept a prestigious guest professorship this year at a German art school.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2024

"Ecological zones are often very similar across national borders," explains David Wuepper, who was appointed to a new professorship in the University of Bonn's PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence as recently as April 2023.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

By then, he had already returned to Britain to take up a professorship at the University of Manchester.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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