instructress

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Noun
  • Research confirms that teachers play the single greatest role in student achievement, even more than school facilities or leadership.
    LaKeisha Wells-Palmer, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2025
  • Tamara’s teacher, Oleh Hodovaniuk, told CNN Monday was a very difficult day for the school.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 27 May 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
  • On March 17, 1947, Christensen gathered with other flight instructors at a naval air base in Glenview, Illinois.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 26 May 2025
  • She's been a race director, a recruiter for Team in Training for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a salesperson for a major pharmaceutical company, a blogger for Moogfest, a communications manager for Mission Health, a fitness instructor, and a health coach.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Desperate to interest the teen-aged mistress in stately old Victorian-era architecture.
    Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • In 1989, Erik confessed to his psychologist, whose mistress later reported it to the police.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 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
Noun
  • Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • See Episode 5, where the killer frames a schoolmaster’s murder as suicide within a locked room, the laughably lazy explanation for which wouldn’t appear out of place in a pantomime.
    Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • On their episode, in particular, Jones plays a schoolteacher named Amanda who resorts to a high-tech brain system after a health scare nearly ends her life, while Ross plays the sales rep for the company, which infiltrates Amanda's life in unexpected ways.
    Stacy Lambe, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • But the schoolteacher’s house on the corner that signaled the start of his neighborhood was leveled.
    Dan Woike, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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