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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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Protect your eyes with blue light glasses, readers and sunglasses from Peepers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Law enforcement agencies have recently been auditing their license plate reader systems, which investigators can search to locate vehicles surveilled by one of the many cameras posted along Georgia’s roadways.

— Taylor Croft, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026

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The suspect was previously in a critical condition after the shooting at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, near Bangkok, with doctors providing emergency treatment.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Health officials also recommend sanitizing any surfaces that came into contact with the lettuce and contacting a doctor if symptoms develop after eating it.

— James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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Damrell has served as a judge in the Sacramento Superior Court since 2018, and is an adjunct professor at Lincoln Law School and visiting lecturer at UC Davis.

— Haley Parsley August 9, Sacbee.com, 9 Aug. 2026
After earning his medical degree from Columbia University and teaching there as an epidemiology professor, el Sayed became the youngest-ever health director of the Detroit Health Department at the age of 30, serving from 2015 to 2017.

— Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2026

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Pernkopf was a Nazi functionary who became dean of the medical faculty in 1938 and rector of the university in 1943.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Kuehl pivoted to academia, eventually becoming an associate dean of students at her alma mater, UCLA, before earning a law degree from Harvard in 1978 at age 34.

— Sophie Clausen, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026

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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

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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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