instructress

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Noun
  • Improvement in these key areas will improve issues around declining enrollment, stakeholder mistrust and retention of great teachers and staff.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The open-plan interior also facilitates interaction between the family and crew of seven, plus a teacher and speech therapist.
    Katia Damborsky, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 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
  • The cruise will be hosted by pro pickleball instructor Bob McDowell.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Expert instructors will teach you strategies to network successfully, revamp your resume and confidently transition into your dream career.
    Judy Lagrou, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Things get more complicated, perverse, even a bit kinky from there when Nevile marries his mistress (Mimi Keene) and then opts to summer at his aunt’s estate – with both his current wife and Audrey, his ex!
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
  • He and his mistress — Ruth Davenport (Mary Stofle, David Lynch's then-sister-in-law), who's eventually found decapitated in her apartment — get caught in the crossfire between Dale Cooper's doppelgänger and the long-missing Major Garland Briggs (Don S. Davis).
    Drew Mackie, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • On the other side of the room, a wooden schoolmaster’s desk is another cherished piece.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
Noun
  • As mild-mannered schoolteacher Mr. Lisbon, James Woods plays a quiet counterpoint to his domineering wife.
    Sezin Devi Koehler, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Born in Calgary to a 16-year-old single mother, he was adopted by two schoolteachers and raised in a middle-class home in the city’s suburbs.
    Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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