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drillmaster

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Definition of drillmaster

as in teacher

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Recent Examples of drillmaster Lynch, in particular, is a standout, weaving together a drillmaster persona, an occasional anxiousness, and a winking humor. — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2022

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But the public school teachers there just received bonuses from the parish government.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martínez, a teacher’s assistant, five times and then bragged about it.

— Jesus Chuy Garcia, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of teacher

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Kennison, a former Gourmandise cooking instructor who taught alongside De Lutz, has been making bean-to-bar chocolate as a hobby for 20 years, usually at her own home but never in the summer.

— Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Bryant, their older son, is an engineer for SpaceX, while their daughter, Holly, is an elementary school teacher and yoga instructor.

— Joseph Person, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of instructor

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The fix is to stop pretending a general-purpose adult chatbot is a children's tutor.

— Dana Williams, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
That is, with almost no translation required, the exact difference between the Chinese students who used AI like a tutor and kept practicing, and the ones who used it to skip the practice altogether.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of tutor

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In the driller's cabin atop the rig, screens display real-time metrics sent back from underground sensors — data that's simultaneously being monitored from company headquarters in Houston.

— Pippa Stevens, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
By the second week of December, the driller reached a depth of 1,450 feet and struck oil sands.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026

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