governess

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Recent Examples of governess Previous generations left children at home with governesses when traveling. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2025 But the love between a strict naval officer (Christopher Plummer) and his carefree governess (Julie Andrews) is at the center of the story. Lia Beck, EW.com, 25 June 2025 In the evenings, Vincent embarks on a surreptitious love affair with Arthur, a soldier on leave — who's also the son of Vincent's governess. Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 May 2025 However, the Mother Abbess (Irma Gloria) has other plans, sending Maria to be governess to the seven children of widowed Captain von Trapp (Noah Peacock). Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for governess
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Noun
  • That blend has endeared Weiss to readers and power players in Los Angeles, where her friendship with A-List celebrities and media moguls has been well documented.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In the first round, readers weighed in on their favorite candy apples, pies, beer and cider.
    Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kennedy sought the advice of doctors after dealing with severe memory loss and brain fog, reportedly leading to a scan of his brain that showed a dark spot in the imagery.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine doctors receiving vital medical kits from orbit after a natural disaster, or soldiers getting urgent supplies in minutes instead of hours.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Miner preachers and independent churches were central to the organization of miners in eastern Kentucky in the 1930s, too, during another period of violence between mine operators and miners over conditions, wages and unionization.
    The Conversation, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Carolyn Smith, the late preacher’s daughter, said her father — like Pendleton a Knoxville College graduate — was instrumental in recruiting Pendleton and other Black educators to teach in San Diego.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Alan Hastings, a distinguished professor emeritus at UC Davis, described Hullar as the UC Davis chancellor most widely criticized by faculty members.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The 54-year old currently works as professor of Egyptology at Helwan University in Greater Cairo, focusing on the civilization and archaeology of ancient Egypt.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Among them is Su Jionglong, deputy dean of the School of AI and Advanced Computing at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, who studies how the technology can help reduce discrimination, provide emotional support, and enable faster medical diagnoses.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Aleksandar Tomic, an economist and associate dean for strategy, innovation, and technology at Boston College, said prediction markets like Polymarket have existed before.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.
    Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
  • 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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“Governess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governess. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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