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Recent Examples of governess
Women at the time were, of course, generally barred from attending college and generally discouraged from the pursuit of learning beyond acquiring the skills of a governess.
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JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025
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.
—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
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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JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025
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.
—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
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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From Amazon Big Spring deals our readers love and discounts on top outdoor tools and lawn equipment at The Home Depot to tech deals at Best Buy and rare spring savings on Bluetti power stations, here's what to shop right now.—
Kasey Caminiti,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Each year, readers are invited to nominate and vote for their favorite local businesses in dozens of categories.—
Community's Choice Awards,
The Providence Journal,
28 Mar. 2026
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At four months old, doctors diagnosed him with a large ventricular septal defect (VSD) between the left and right ventricles in his heart, as well as pulmonary hypertension.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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After Fowler was taken to the hospital, doctors found antifreeze in his system — causing significant damage to his internal organs.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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His father, much older than his mom, was a preacher who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Moreover, as soon as Christianity began to spread outside his native land, Christian converts faced new situations in unexpected contexts, completely different from those of their founder, an itinerant Jewish preacher in the sparsely populated hinterlands of rural Galilee.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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Daniel Birnbaum is a professor of philosophy at the Städelschule in Frankfurt.—
Daniel Birnbaum,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Richard Katskee, a law professor at Duke University, viewed it differently.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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On the cusp of his 90th birthday, the dean of Bay Area jazz pianism shares music and some first-hand accounts witnessing Davis and Coltrane in action in San Francisco.—
Andrew Gilbert,
San Francisco Chronicle,
26 Mar. 2026
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One associate dean couched the misstep as a result of learning pains tied to the adoption of new technology.—
Emily Hodgson Anderson,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 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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The project was led by Xu Jianzhong, PhD, a CAS academician and engineering thermophysics expert.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
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Authors call for a worldwide network of government leaders, UN agencies, scientists, academicians and the public, all designed to combat the spread of ultraprocessed foods, prioritizing children.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
18 Nov. 2025
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Woke doesn't just characterize academe, academe is from where almost every trope of woke originally came.—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
26 Jan. 2026
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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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“Governess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governess. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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