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Example sentences for: profess

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Reporters, whose job is depicting reality, profess to despise spin.
Others praise Harrelson's humorous turn as a dullard and profess surprise that Shue makes such a sexy seductress.
We Americans profess to be so concerned with kids, and education, and early brain development, and on and on, and even today working moms are subject to tremendous amounts of disapproval for supposedly compromising their children's whatever, no matter how terrific their child-care arrangements are, but now we are taking the most vulnerable kids and saying we don't care what kind of arrangements you make, just show up for your sub-minimum-wage street-cleaning job, which will hardly ever lead to a real job, and which you have to drop out of school to get to.
Microsoft spokesmen simultaneously profess 1) "reluctance" at being forced to stoop to lobbying and 2) chagrin at having done so "belatedly."
Led by arty kids such as Chris Hitchens, "Mo" Dowd, and Leon Wieseltier--who also edits the Washington literary magazine--the Dramatists profess disgust with everyone on the Hill and in the Gulch.