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Recent Examples of headmistress
Michelle Yeoh portrays the headmistress in the 2024 Wicked adaptation.
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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
The supporting cast is superb, with Michelle Yeoh ideally cast as Madame Morrible, the headmistress and dean of sorcery studies who takes Elphaba under her wings, seeing extraordinary potential in the girl’s powers.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, Elphaba catches the eye of headmistress Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) and even the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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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
The supporting cast is superb, with Michelle Yeoh ideally cast as Madame Morrible, the headmistress and dean of sorcery studies who takes Elphaba under her wings, seeing extraordinary potential in the girl’s powers.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, Elphaba catches the eye of headmistress Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) and even the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmistress
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The situation remains the same, but your relationship to it changes completely. Transform your triggers into your greatest teachers Become a zen entrepreneur by transforming your relationship to triggers.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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The effort also aims to improve staff retention and recruitment at a time when hiring enough teachers can prove challenging — especially in an expensive city where the rising cost of having a family outpaces a teacher’s salary.—
Jenny Gold,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 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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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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The Hogwarts headmaster was previously played by the late Richard Harris and Michael Gambon in the original film series.—
Michael Nied,
People.com,
28 Apr. 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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University deans, schoolmarms and human resources managers penned dress codes outright forbidding the garment or relegating it to certain areas.—
The Conversation,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2023
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In 1989, Erik confessed to his psychologist, whose mistress later reported it to the police.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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But a bitter divorce turned deadly when Jennifer Dulos disappeared and her husband and his mistress were implicated in her murder.—
John Cassidy,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Kitty Menendez, his wife, was a former schoolteacher.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Established in 1974 with the purchase of 782 acres funded by a New Jersey schoolteacher, Rowe is now almost seven times its original size and includes a river channel, meadows and agricultural land.—
Erinn Springer,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Expert instructors will teach you strategies to network successfully, revamp your resume and confidently transition into your dream career.—
Natalie Wu,
CNBC,
15 May 2025
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Howard Fuller, an instructor for the Connecticut Rider Education Program at Tunxis Community College, said attitudes are different on the roads these days with distracted and disrespectful driving toward others.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
15 May 2025
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Before sports betting was legalized, Heather Eshleman, the prevention manager at the Maryland Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, got roughly three requests a year from educators requesting presentations on sports betting addiction.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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The McColl Center’s $40,000 grant was going toward its summer artist residency program for artists who are parents, caregivers or educators.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
13 May 2025
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“Headmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmistress. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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