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governess

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Recent Examples of governess The ladies Carnarvon, their daughters, and their guests—not to mention the governesses, maids, and cooks? — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026 Maybe for a governess, but a maid? — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 Their governess, Marion Crawford, educated them on the building’s third floor, offering a chronicle of the comfortable home in her 1950 memoir, The Little Princesses. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 24 Feb. 2026 Like many young women of her generation, Lady Anne was educated at home by a governess and reportedly excelled at music and languages. — Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 17 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for governess

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Privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy, federated learning, and on-device modeling let a publisher predict reader behavior without ever assembling an identifiable profile in a central warehouse.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
But Andersen keeps introducing threats, both external and internal, and the reader can’t help but worry.

— John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of reader

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Hughes says that miscarriage concerns are common for pregnant women and that doctors are constantly discussing risks and benefits with their patients.

— Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Wray said doctors told the family that only about 20% of her son's brain is functioning.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026

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In the book, a man known only as the Shepherd, a one-handed, somewhat insane preacher, starts turning the masses of King’s Landing against the Targaryens — and their dragons.

— James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
The Burkes were also very religious, with Dawud occasionally serving as a Pentecostal preacher.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of preacher

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Bill Hing, professor of law and migration at the University of San Francisco, said Soboleva has a compelling case.

— Itay Hod, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
The plant cannot be turned off during periods of high solar power production, so the state ends up cutting back on its solar power or giving it away for free, said Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of professor

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Davis had a close friendship with Sam Goren, the Pembroke Pines city attorney and dean of local government lawyers in Broward.

— Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
According to Coin, James Spencer went on to become a commander in the Navy and a dean and provost at Cornell University.

— Katie Howe, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of dean

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Rarely is there much conceptual overlap between the categories of pedant and genius.

— Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026
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

Definition of pedant

Noun

The framing story follows Toño, a struggling writer, would-be academician and lifelong devotee of traditional Peruvian creole music.

— Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 24 May 2026
Church did not, however, neglect the National Academy, and in 1849—in the midst of bloody riots pitting nativists against immigrants and New York’s working class against the wealthy—he was promoted to full academician status.

— Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

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