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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
  • These professors incorporate allegedly responsible uses of GenAI into assignments, such as telling their students to upload course documents into an LLM and asking it to generate potential test questions.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Rao and Vasu Unnava, both professors at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, were staying in a hotel in Timure, Nepal, when the flash floods occurred, according to a message from the university’s chancellor and provost.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of professors
Noun
  • Under that change, adult supervision, a log of activity and the ability for instructors to disable the tool would be required for students to use such a tool.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The gathering place is beach club Nammo, with its poolside restaurant and watersports instructors, smack in front of Bo’a break.
    — Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of instructors
Noun
  • District leaders say the additional funding helps retain and recruit educators amid rising living costs.
    — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Scott said the organization is advocating for special education leaders with lived experience and knowledge of disability rights, as well as more support for educators and staff and greater accountability for IEP implementation and compliance.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of educators
Noun
  • While many doctors urge their player patients to wait until their inflammation goes down before having surgery, Mahomes said his doctors urged him to get the surgery before the inflammation took root.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Waystar’s software is used by hospitals and doctors to manage payments.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of doctors
Noun
  • Their owners include schoolteachers and secretaries alongside some of Los Angeles’ wealthiest families.
    — Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Schock grew up in Santa Clarita, California, the daughter of two schoolteachers.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of schoolteachers
Noun
  • His boyish looks notwithstanding, Kiernan is now one of the deans of New York television, approaching his 30th year on NY1.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Each academic school hosts their own ceremony, with students attending various departments — plus deans and senior leadership — all clad in their cardinal and gold regalia, marching behind their banners across the campus.
    — Staff report, Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of deans
Noun
  • There are not nearly enough supervisors, known as preceptors, willing to take on students for those 500 hours of training.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 24 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • Flynn had been for a drink with a girl whose job was to place adverts in the various Festival guides and brochures and who spoke mostly in panegyrics.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • New data guides prototype The high-temperature measurements now give Westinghouse engineers more evidence for refining their analytical models.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of guides
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