as in adept
having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor
a professed analyst of American presidential politics
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as in pretended
to present a false appearance of
professed friendship while secretly plotting revenge
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as in declared
to state clearly and strongly
the lonely woman professed her love in a series of letters to the soldier
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as in alleged
to state as a fact usually forcefully
he professed his innocence to anyone who would listen
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Recent Examples of professed
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
Trump can’t seem to refrain from touting his genius, especially when the subject is dealmaking, his professed speciality.
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Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
Annie Waldman,
ProPublica,
9 June 2026
That’s when Crowley professed his own love for the angel and asked him to leave Heaven and Hell behind, too.
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ArsTechnica,
15 May 2026
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Adjective
Some fleeing toil and craving transcendence, others reaffirming a faith long professed.
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Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
Trump can’t seem to refrain from touting his genius, especially when the subject is dealmaking, his professed speciality.
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Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
McAfee has professed the benefits of unpasteurized milk in public libraries and chiropractor offices.
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Annie Waldman,
ProPublica,
9 June 2026
That’s when Crowley professed his own love for the angel and asked him to leave Heaven and Hell behind, too.
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ArsTechnica,
15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professed
Adjective
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Officials have grown increasingly concerned since Anthropic warned earlier this year that its Mythos model was adept at finding software flaws in a way that could be weaponized by malicious hackers and threaten critical computer networks around the world.
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Do this regularly; teenagers are adept at reversing settings the moment your back is turned.
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Even though many Metallica fans pretended to loathe the Load albums, headbangers came out for them.
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But at least the administration still pretended that justice was the point.
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The State Department on Tuesday congratulated conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori after she was declared the winner of Peru’s presidential runoff election by a razor-thin margin.
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The military declared McKinney dead in March 1946, though no crash site had been identified, let alone any remains of the man from Providence, Rhode Island.
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The complaint alleged deceptive advertising and other misconduct.
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The court of appeal further ruled Guild had sufficiently alleged CCM had aided, and benefited from, then-Guild branch manager Christopher Flowers’s breach of his fiduciary duty to Guild.
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The plebeians have plenty to be furious about, but their representatives, skilled at turning a crowd into a mob, seem hellbent on shoring up their own influence.
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It is stored in plain text in RAM and can theoretically be accessed by administrators, cloud operators, hypervisors, or highly skilled attackers through malware, insider threats, or side-channel attacks.
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Many business leaders assumed the semiconductor crisis ended with the pandemic.
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The defense attorney said police automatically assumed her client was the suspect from the start.
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In internal messaging to staff, Bunch has steadfastly asserted the Institution’s independence, while not mentioning Trump by name.
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The move means the rest of the AI industry will be forced to take heed of the authority asserted by Lutnick, and BIS can invoke other powers if the specific provisions used against Anthropic are contested.
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Iran also insisted on the full implementation of the first clause of the memorandum — ending Israel’s war and military operations against Lebanon, Baghaei said.
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Adorni insisted the money was earned legitimately including through cryptocurrency investments.
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“Professed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professed. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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