What is "pros"

Usage examples of "pros".

They have old pros, young turks, crippled opponents, and a candidate who once came within an eyelash of beating the late John F.

I am, as I said, a pro -- and in this foul and desperate hour in our history I think even pros should speak up.

Most of the pros I talked to in Cozumel were reluctant, at first, to speak on this subject -- at least for the record -- but after the third or fourth drink, they would invariably come around to suggesting that anglers were more of a hazard than a help and, as a general rule of thumb, you could catch more fish by just jamming the rod into a holder on the rear end of the boat and letting the fish do the work.

After two or three days on the boats, the most generous consensus I could get from the pros was that even the best angler is worth about a ten percent advantage in a tournament, and that most are seen as handicaps.

Ellie were treated to decent dinner at the hotel restaurant by the con committee, it was time to face the Meet the Pros Party.

Ellie arrived, including virtually all of the writers at the con, pros and wannabees, hoping to hear something that might aid them in cadging a scripting assignment.

A half a dozen or so of the well-known pros in the area showed up more or less regularly, an appearance by such as Harlan Ellison or Ray Bradbury would draw various of their more show bizzy pals, a presentation by Jerry Pournelle would attract space program types, and of course a story editor or production executive from any cartoon series, let alone a prime time sf series, would turn out every wannabee sf scriptwriter in town.

LostCon Meet the Pros Party, those same eyes, that same gaze, that same achingly wholehearted sincerity, as she had told him that he was one of the Just, one of the unknowing secret moral pillars upholding the world.

Listlessly, I went over the pros and cons of what he had said, and asked for feedback from my mother and Lisa and Bart.

For the next two hours, they cooked and ate dinner, debated the pros and cons of setting up a meeting with Jeremy Rich, and discussed the circumstances under which such a meeting could occur and still meet their security needs.

Can-D, ship it in the same ships, reach the colonists with the same well-trained, experienced pushers you use, advertise through pros like Allen and Charlotte Faine.

The game came on and we all watched it, marveling at the pros, how easily they did the things we stumbled over.

His mind churned through the pros and cons, but no conclusions spewed forward.

He took his time, considering the pros and cons, the costs and benefits, all that.