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Trump became disenchanted by McMaster because the national security adviser was too professorial, trying to cram him with too much information.
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Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2020
That professorial spirit is one of the reasons the Steelers signed Peterson to a two-year deal last spring.
—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
Ball of Fire features Stanwyck as a savvy nightclub singer hiding out with stuffy academic Cooper and his endearing crop of professorial colleagues.
—Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
But Kissinger approved, implemented, and, in professorial media turns, publicized it.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
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Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2020
That professorial spirit is one of the reasons the Steelers signed Peterson to a two-year deal last spring.
—Will Graves, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
Ball of Fire features Stanwyck as a savvy nightclub singer hiding out with stuffy academic Cooper and his endearing crop of professorial colleagues.
—Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
But Kissinger approved, implemented, and, in professorial media turns, publicized it.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
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Effective Content Delivery Methods Sound pedagogical methods should drive SEL design.Hashim Hayat, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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The greatest point of pedagogical interest here is how, in addition to research, history, style emulation, and memory and observation exercises, this course aims to culminate in a field trip to Ireland.Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
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The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.Scott Brown, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
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Bryce Young is bookish, too.Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 9 Dec. 2022
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Starting this scholastic year, the program is donating 175,000 euros to institutions located in the U.S. and U.K. Plans are afoot to expand globally in the future.Jennifer Weil, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
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Public health, the work of public health cannot be principally scholastic.Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 12 June 2024
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Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves.Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2022
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There is no scholarly consensus on the term, according to both Berman and Mark Bray, a political scientist from Rutgers University.Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Instead, the museum has filed a lawsuit against the Manhattan District Attorney seeking a declaration that the museum is the rightful and lawful owner of a headless bronze whose likely illicit origins have been documented in a major scholarly journal.Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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So ultimately, the remedy for this problem goes beyond pedantic lessons in medical risk data.Amanda Montañez, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024
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For the pedantic like myself, this translates to 3,452.33834 regular miles or a numerically pleasing 5,555.99999 km.New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2024
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In addition to her extensive responsibilities at CDU, Bazargan-Hejazi has enriched her academic and mentoring reach as an adjunct professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.Deb Harvell, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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As The Times Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton reported this week, USC quietly offered wealthy and well-connected families an alternative route to admission with much lower academic expectations and an acceptance rate of 85% to 90%.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
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