Thesaurus results for INSTRUCTOR

instructor

noun

in-ˈstrək-tər

as in teacher

a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school had spent most of his adulthood as an instructor in the local school system

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Recent Examples of instructor During practical exercises, instructors can inject simulated malware or network intrusions into the control software. —

Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 June 2026 Police investigator Andrea Levy told reporters Monday that the three instructors involved in the jump acknowledged that Rodrigues de Freitas was not connected to any safety equipment before she was launched from the bridge. —

Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026 Liz Torres found her place in Stars Hollow as Miss Patty, the town's dance instructor with a colorful past, wild dating life, and love for gossip. —

Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026 Ragsdale had been a water-safety instructor for decades and an amateur rainfall reporter. —

Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for instructor

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Deputies responded to Roye-Williams Elementary School in Havre De Grace for reports of an assault between a student and two teachers, which resulted in the teachers suffering non-life-threatening injuries.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 17 June 2026
Other educators included white teachers from the South and the North, sent by churches and aid societies.

— Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 16 June 2026