Professors
Staff and professors are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Staff" instead a noun "Professors".
Staff
Staff noun - A body of persons at work or available for work.
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Naturally, some of the staff there are summoning up Eldritch Abominations for you to do battle with — and one of the professors has a very familiar name.
Source: Lovecraft Country - It's noticeable that Ridcully tends to be a lot nicer to the serving staff than he is to his fellow professors, possibly related to him growing up on the street himself.
Source: Nice to the Waiter -
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The "Australian Philosophy Professors" sketch, in which the members of the department complain about the newest addition to the faculty being "a bit confusing" — because he's the only person on the entire staff who isn't named Bruce.
Source: Odd Name Out
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