professor
noun
Examples of professor in a Sentence
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Among the fallouts from the crisis professor Gomes foresees is a sharp decline in the value of the dollar as interest rates spiral higher.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and a professor of law at Harvard University.
—Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
His parents, Stanford University law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, attended the sentencing.
—Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2024
Others experience more than one symptom, said Dr. Lauren Streicher, clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
For one, the treatment may be able to tamp down inflammation on your scalp, protecting against hair loss, said Ife J. Rodney, MD, founding director of Eternal Dermatology + Aesthetics and professor of dermatology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
—Korin Miller, Health, 20 Mar. 2024
Rebecca Raby, a professor of child and youth studies at Brock University, in Canada, told me that first jobs can be extremely formative, even empowering experiences.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
According to Stephen Lawrence, a professor of physics and astronomy at Hofstra University, seeing the eclipse from a plane comes with some extra benefits but also a few challenges.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
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Word History
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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