docents

noun

plural of docent
as in professors

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for docents
  1. professors
  2. instructors
  3. educators
  4. doctors
  5. schoolteachers
  6. deans
  7. preceptors
  8. guides
Noun
  • More than simply creating programs, professors must try to prepare students for widely differing goals for using AI in their careers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Like so many of the other professors at VCUarts Qatar, Muscolino sought out a genre-defying career, moving between experimental film and video production for architecture firms while playing in a band on the side.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of professors
Noun
  • Our instructors and support staff are critical to training future physicians and advancing the health of Connecticut residents.
    — Opinion, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Feldman emphasizes hiring instructors who love community and kids, not necessarily master chefs, as the curriculum teaches cooking.
    — Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of instructors
Noun
  • Aurora teacher Blanca Ceniceros is among educators in the area spending their own money every school year to support their classrooms.
    — Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • When employers, educators and community partners create that path together, small manufacturers can build a talent pipeline none of them could achieve alone.
    — Ethan Karp, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of educators
Noun
  • Dubbed the White Wings, the sanitation workers sported white pith helmets and uniforms not unlike the lab coats that doctors began to don in the 1880s as germ theory took hold and antiseptics became associated with health.
    — Rana Mitter, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Brenda González Rocha, who has lived in her south Omaha home since 2020, thinks both soil and paint are to blame for the lead that doctors found in her 4-year-old daughter’s blood.
    — Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of doctors
Noun
  • Burnham has said that his Catholic schoolteachers helped shape his political consciousness.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 June 2026
  • At those gatherings, there will be fans like these two schoolteachers, who have saved their money for decades to watch the world’s best play all over the world.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
Definition of schoolteachers
Noun
  • Continue reading … 'THIS IS RIDICULOUS' — Med school deans come up empty in tense hearing when asked point blank if men can have babies.
    — , FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026
  • Pageants, deans' lists, graduations or military enlistments are not accepted.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 June 2026
Definition of deans
Noun
  • Nataly Degante and Mayra Vargas, who graduated in 2023, have begun working as preceptors — practitioners who supervise interns or students during clinical trainings — at organizations in Los Angeles.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
Definition of preceptors
Noun
  • Infrared guides autonomy The tests centered on a sensor package known as the Legion Pod, which tracked a live T-38 aircraft during flight.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The story that The People’s Beauty Index tells about the industry is that diversity is foundational, hyperlocal recommendations are necessary, and Reddit users see themselves as guides, not aspirational avatars or marketers.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of guides
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