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Example sentences for: profess

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Reporters, whose job is depicting reality, profess to despise spin.
In other words, as long as you profess to believe that human life begins at conception and that abortion is murder, it's not important whether you actually do anything about it.
One measure of Dowd's importance is that even people who profess to despise her seem to read her religiously--and to recycle her jokes at parties.
Speaking, if I may, for the pro-choice side of the debate: Pro-lifers may profess any principles they care to, as long as they agree not to act on them.
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.