governess

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Recent Examples of governess Monroe joins Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night in Soho, JoJo Rabbit) in the production that previously had Margaret Qualley in the role of the governess. Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 As Winifred assimilates into life at Ensor House, staff members begin to inexplicably disappear, and the owners of the estate begin to wonder if there is something amiss about their new governess. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 May 2025 Set in 1858, the story centers on a governess named Winifred Notty, hiding her psychopathic tendencies while arriving to work at a remote gothic manor. Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 Isaacs will be stepping into the role of Mr. Pounds, the owner of the estate who employs the young, eccentric governess Winifred Notty. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for governess
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Noun
  • Each food diary follows one anonymous reader’s week of expenses related to groceries, restaurant meals, coffee runs, and every bite in between.
    Karla Walsh, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 July 2025
  • Robinson said her books, more so than ones about white characters, resonate with Black readers.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Cubans, including white-collar professionals, doctors and teachers, make the equivalent of roughly $15 a month in Cuban pesos.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 19 July 2025
  • But Ziegler also predicts that more risk-averse doctors will feel the law doesn't offer enough clarity to offset the steep penalties that still exist.
    Olivia Aldridge, NPR, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • Unexpectedly, he's been taking it upon himself to continue quoting verses, stepping into the role of a preacher.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
  • By my rough count, more than a dozen colleges and universities had their beginnings on or near the Great Wagon Road, simple affairs typically begun by Presbyterian preachers who maintained that Christian education was next to godliness.
    James Dodson July 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Other notable cast members include John Lithgow as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore; Paapa Essiedu as enigmatic potions professor Severus Snape; and Lox Pratt as Hogwarts bully Draco Malfoy.
    EW.com, EW.com, 15 July 2025
  • Soon, professors were asking her boyfriend about his dinner plans.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The group’s chair, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a kidney specialist who was a former dean at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, said in an interview that his organization had worked with the Trump administration and that threats of funding cuts were key to the effort.
    Azeen Ghorayshi, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The shows are also considered a powerful symbol of Puerto Rican self-reliance and the belief that the US territory can stand tall on its own, says Javier J. Hernández Acosta, dean of the School of Arts, Design and Creative Industries at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible.
    Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • This Jet Ski Is Not a Jet Ski Incidentally, for the pedants out there (WIRED salutes you), technically this is not a jet ski, but a personal watercraft, or PWC.
    WIRED, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • There’s little scaffolding or bridging, virtually no space given to centralized agencies, which most development academicians would agree still have their place.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.
    Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • His ideas have particularly struck a chord with readers who deal in aesthetics—artists, curators, designers, and architects—even though Han has not quite been embraced by philosophy academe.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024

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