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Recent Examples of rector
Mayall was also a rector for Holy Name Cathedral beginning in January 2002.
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Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
Ciotti had gone to speak to the school’s rector, to explain why the girl’s real name could not be used.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Other information provided by the Archdiocese noted Reidy was ordained by Bishop Timothy J. Harrington at Saint Paul Cathedral in Worcester in 1994, and was assigned to St. Peter Parish in Worcester before becoming rector of Saint Paul Cathedral by Bishop Daniel P. Reilly.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2025
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Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
Ciotti had gone to speak to the school’s rector, to explain why the girl’s real name could not be used.
—D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Other information provided by the Archdiocese noted Reidy was ordained by Bishop Timothy J. Harrington at Saint Paul Cathedral in Worcester in 1994, and was assigned to St. Peter Parish in Worcester before becoming rector of Saint Paul Cathedral by Bishop Daniel P. Reilly.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rector
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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
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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
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Jeff Goldblum also stars as The Wizard, while Jonathan Bailey plays Fiyero and Michelle Yeoh plays Shiz headmaster Madame Morrible.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
20 Nov. 2024
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So, too, did the cities of Baltimore and the District of Columbia, headmasters of private schools and university presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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Tamara’s teacher, Oleh Hodovaniuk, told CNN Monday was a very difficult day for the school.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
27 May 2025
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Information on a memorandum of understanding between the district and the Teachers Like Me Program to offer teacher recruitment services and guidance.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
27 May 2025
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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
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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
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The Boston City Council unanimously approved a home rule petition that would hike disability pension benefits for a former city schoolteacher who was pummeled by a 16-year-old student in a 2021 attack that left her with traumatic brain damage.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
21 May 2025
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The first was to flash back to the schoolteacher with the soda.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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He was born in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa to expatriate Indian parents, who were both educators, and grew up there as the country was ruled by Emperor Haile Selassie.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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This works especially well for educators, consultants, or coaches.—
Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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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
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This involves pairing each nursing student with an experienced nurse preceptor from day one — an approach that builds clinical confidence early while honoring the vital role of bedside nurses in education.—
Shakira Henderson,
Sun Sentinel,
18 May 2025
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According to a recent report, a shortage of nursing school faculty, including nurse preceptors, is greatly restricting nursing program enrollments.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Rector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rector. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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