profess
verb (used with object)
to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to.
professes
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present tense formof profess (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The exhibit, which professes to illustrate storytelling through art in its earliest manifestations, is a jarring introduction to a museum that houses 1,300 original works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
He credits the small-town nondenominational congregants of his early years with living out the kind of communitarian values the rest of the world professes to value but mostly doesn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Yet it simultaneously professes anxiety about an Asian American who has decidedly not stood apart from American institutions and culture: After graduating from Yale Law School, Wang clerked for two Supreme Court justices.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
He leaves, but she runs through the streets to chase Conrad - soundtracked by Taylor Swift's Out of the Woods - and professes her love on his train and says she chooses him.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
The first, which will perhaps become increasingly important in an inquisitive age which professes to still value privacy, makes it possible to obtain sensitive information about a group of people without compromising any person’s privacy.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
