How to Use professor in a Sentence

professor

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  • Professor Williams will be teaching the class.
  • He was born in Madrid in 1964, the son of a Spanish literature professor.
    — cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
  • After the bot determined that the whole class had done so, the professor threatened to fail everyone.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The professors say that these bets were unusual given the context of Israel’s economy at the time.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Through his work as a lawyer and professor, Ogletree’s legacy reached beyond the school’s Cambridge classrooms.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • After which, what could Musk’s teachers and future professors teach him?
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • This Week Also interesting was the order in which the professors listed the experts.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • West is a renowned Black scholar, author, and former professor at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 8 June 2023
  • That’s what happened to O’Connor, the Carnegie Mellon professor, earlier in her career.
    — Byirina Ivanova, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • LAist The rise of AI has raised many a college professor’s heart rate as some universities move to ban the technology outright.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Rollins also says Arroyo needs the professor to release his letter.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • One of my professors was a Marxist and another a Socialist.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Weiss-Blatt thinks most professors who signed weren't thinking about existential risk, not all.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That’s disappointing to Ross at Penn State as an antitrust professor.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • The professor noted that the results of the study were similar to those previously reported for prison inmates.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 31 May 2023
  • In an email exchange, Nathan Schlueter, a philosophy professor, explained what seemed to be a prevailing view.
    — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In graduate school, Griffin never had a professor of color and women were few.
    — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • The sailing yacht was used by Virginia Tech professor Francesco Ferretti and his team of scientists to gather more information on the species.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The professor gave Quarterman a failing grade and referred him to the same student affairs office that would adjudicate Stivers’ case.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
  • Simmons won an Oscar for his portrayal of the hard-driving music professor in Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed drama Whiplash, one of the actor’s many accolades for the role.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
  • His father was a professor of statistics; his mother was a piano teacher.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Her husband, now a rabbi and professor of rabbinical literature, lived in Israel for a dozen years.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • That was before the 1960s, revolutionary in so many ways, including how professors could dress.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Frequent meals downtown with professors or classmates are the norm, while on campus students will find that class sizes are small and studying across disciplines is popular.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 25 July 2023
  • But Chizuko Ueno, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, is a phenomenon.
    — Kanis Leung, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • For Ferguson, the law professor, SoundThinking’s quest to amass technology is part of an ongoing race to become the all-in-one platform for policing.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Neither the professor nor the administration addressed the conduct, according to the complaint.
    — Haley Cohen, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The shooter was a long-time business professor who sought a professor position at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and was denied.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Both of them had parents who were professors and scientists, and Walters asked if this family background was an important part of their success.
    — Andrew McAfee, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023

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