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As villainous headmistress Miss Trunchbull, Emma Thompson was tasked with hurling students, but no child actors were harmed during the tossing scenes, which were filmed with the help of a professional hammer thrower.
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 2025
McGonagall is a transfiguration professor, but also the head of Gryffindor House and deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.
—Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
Buy Now 12 of 15 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl
Precocious bookworms everywhere found a kindred spirit in Matilda, a little girl with neglectful parents and a loving teacher who takes on a terrorizing headmistress with her special powers.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 2025
McGonagall is a transfiguration professor, but also the head of Gryffindor House and deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.
—Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
Buy Now 12 of 15 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl
Precocious bookworms everywhere found a kindred spirit in Matilda, a little girl with neglectful parents and a loving teacher who takes on a terrorizing headmistress with her special powers.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmistress
Noun
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During a soft lockdown, the school’s teachers are asked to check the hallways for staff and students before locking doors and windows.—
Daniel S. Levine,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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Its most passionate and informed teachers, current and former players say, usually aren’t assistant coaches in an NFL building but players.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2024
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Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.—
Duane Byrge,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
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On orders from the headmaster, the teacher had asked all the Indian students to raise their hands.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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My grandfather was a headmaster.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board took note of the hard-right’s distress, let down its tightly wound schoolmarm bun and snickered right out loud.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 July 2025
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The search for a missing schoolmarm is the focus of an escape room experience at the Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton.—
Beth Lipoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2025
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As Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis, sympathies shift between husband, wife and mistress while emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Bengtsen 1 hour 35 minutes Lo began her inquiry with mistress dispeller Wang Zhenxi, who brings a fascinating mix of insight, compassion and role-play to her work.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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An Australian schoolteacher journeys to Indonesia after ending her engagement, where a reunion with her first love and connection with his enigmatic best friend force her to choose between nostalgia and a new future.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
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Her father worked at the department of public works, and her mother was a schoolteacher and musician.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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The instructor’s compensation is far from unusual for them.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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The 65-year-old exercise instructor and fitness personality didn’t rely on gimmicks to get Mel Owen’s attention.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
23 Oct. 2025
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Employers can also work directly with educators to nurture early talent’s skill development through existing classroom-to-career initiatives, such as AP Career Kickstart by College Board.—
Allison Danielsen,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Parents and educators worry about how quickly this technology spreads through schools.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Headmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmistress. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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