headmistress

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Recent Examples of headmistress The film also stars Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero; Ethan Slater as Boq; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s favored sister; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard. Robert Lang, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024 The cast also includes ; Jonathan Bailey, who is also openly gay, as Fiyero; Michelle Yeoh as headmistress Madame Morrible; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard. Monica Sager, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 Michelle Yeoh portrays the headmistress in the 2024 Wicked adaptation. Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024 Oscar-winning icon Michelle Yeoh plays Madame Morrible, a Shiz University headmistress. Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for headmistress
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Noun
  • As education became more standardized, so did teacher licensing.
    Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • In 2016, while still a college student, Taitt launched Dream Reach Inspire, hosting his first event with his former high school English teacher, now McKinney principal, Nicole Sledge, in attendance.
    Essence, Essence, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Deadline first reported that John Lithgow was nearing final talks for the role of Albus Dumbledore, the aloof yet powerful headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 10 June 2025
  • John Lawlor, who portrayed one of Cloris Leachman’s co-workers on the CBS sitcom Phyllis and the Eastland School for Girls headmaster on the first season of the NBC comedy The Facts of Life, has died.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The mistress market People have affairs all the time, and some of them can afford bonus apartments for their trysts.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 20 June 2025
  • Good Will Hunting and Sleepers actress Minnie Driver portrayed this nightclub singer and mistress of crime boss Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane) in 1995's GoldenEye.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Two years after pleading guilty to murder, Hardin pleaded guilty to two counts of rape after his DNA, which was entered into the Arkansas DNA database following his murder plea, was connected to the 1997 rape of schoolteacher Amy Harrison in the nearby city of Rogers, court documents show.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
  • Craft Lemonade co-founder and Escondido schoolteacher Amber Vandewarker said this recipe was created in honor of her husband, who has a passion for pickles.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • There is a $10 per person fee paid to the instructor.
    Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • Di Bona was hailed for his long run with Vin Di Bona Productions and his extensive efforts to train the next generation through his work as an instructor and member of the board of trustees of Emerson College, his alma mater.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Jasmine Chaney, 29, an educator in Charlotte, came to support the presentation of Black culture.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 July 2025
  • At the home, deputies found David, the Wisconsin State Patrol Bureau of Transportation Safety and Technical Services Director, and Teri, an educator, dead.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 11 July 2025

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