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Recent Examples of governess
Based on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, the story — about an emotionally unstable governess (Deborah Kerr) who becomes convinced that there’s something very wrong with her young charges — has inspired multiple films and TV series, including Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor.
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
His father worked as a janitor and mother a governess.
—Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
Based on a true story, the plot follows the aristocratic Von Trapp family as former convent novice Maria (played by Julie Andrews), shows up to be governess and changes their lives.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
There is a painfully revealing example in Emma where Miss Bates is telling Emma about Jane Fairfax’s prospects as a governess to the Sucklings’ friends the Smallridges.
—Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
His father worked as a janitor and mother a governess.
—Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
Based on a true story, the plot follows the aristocratic Von Trapp family as former convent novice Maria (played by Julie Andrews), shows up to be governess and changes their lives.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
There is a painfully revealing example in Emma where Miss Bates is telling Emma about Jane Fairfax’s prospects as a governess to the Sucklings’ friends the Smallridges.
—Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governess
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As far back as December, a reader emailed me in disbelief at the hundreds of people who packed into an ICE observation training at a church in Uptown — trainings that are now common.—
Eric Roper,
Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2026
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For 2026, readers will register for panels just once for either the Classroom space or the Pfab Lab.—
Meg Miller,
Austin American Statesman,
31 Jan. 2026
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Unlike with an infection, where doctors can use an objective blood test to pinpoint the bacteria or virus causing the problem, there are few simple tests to determine what kind of mental health disorder someone has.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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Then, in the fifth century BCE, came the Greek doctor Hippocrates.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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The television series emphasizes the role of Michael Woroniecki, a controversial Christian preacher from Grand Rapids, in the family's lives, though Woroniecki denies any influence.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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What Twin wouldn’t give right now for her own hands to be her mother’s or a preacher’s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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In 2023, the legislature added district attorneys, health care providers, teachers, professors, and school counselors to that list.—
Shaun Boyd,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Those rules aim to prevent armed confrontations between protesters, counterprotesters and law enforcement, said University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor John Gross.—
Paul Kiefer,
jsonline.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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In 2016, a team led by Su Yinquan, dean of forestry at Northwest A&F University, leased 14 hectares of barren Gobi land in Xinjiang to test whether Duzhong could survive and grow there.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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The deans forwarded 54 courses to the university's president, and 48 exceptions were granted.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Avery, the heroine of Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel, Flat Earth (Catapult, $26), spends many turgid nights with a pedant.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
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As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Sep. 2025
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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
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Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.—
Charles Rotblut,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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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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“Governess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governess. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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