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Recent Examples of governess Many aspects of the book were inspired by Brontë’s life, including her months working as a governess to help pay her brother Branwell’s debts. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026 The ladies Carnarvon, their daughters, and their guests—not to mention the governesses, maids, and cooks? — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 24 Apr. 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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Several readers have spoken of appreciation for the columns of mine that intersected sports and society, such as excoriating the NFL for its blackballing of Colin Kaepernick.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
The anecdote is dramatic, the science is real but incomplete, and the practice is moving from fringe biohacking toward a supervised clinical tool, with major caveats readers should understand before trying anything similar.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of reader

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Your doctor may also recommend eating more iron-rich foods, such as red meat, poultry and fish, as well as legumes, leafy greens, seeds and nuts.

— Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
Talk to his doctors, his social worker, and the aides about other options.

— R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026

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With bow and arrow in hand, Anghba finds his hunt for a wild boar across a riverbank interrupted by a raft floating downstream, as former tribespeople surround a jovial American preacher (Douglas Henshall), much to the chieftain’s chagrin.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Among the line-up are several Black Americans, one of whom is Oscar Rankin, a Black prizefighter and preacher, well known in the Black community.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026

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No, the Unabomber, a onetime math genius and professor named Ted Kaczynski, was basically a hermit nerd in a Montana cabin who mailed bombs to scientists, engineers, professors, and other elites.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
So, when more than 3,000 of their professors — mostly math and science teachers — recently signed a letter calling for the return of the SAT, everyone took notice.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026

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Allison was founding dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School, which for decades trained many of China’s government officials.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
Nitin Nohria spent a decade as dean of Harvard Business School, and taught his first workshop there for new CEOs in 1997.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of dean

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While scientists around the globe believe there's water ice on the moon, said Ye Peijian, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, no one has definitively found and fully evaluated that resource as yet.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of academician

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And in the academe, there is a growing demand for nuclear science education.

— Lorela U. Sandoval, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
Different goals lead to different strategies The differences between industry and academe begin with a divergence in purpose.

— Maysam Ghovanloo, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2026

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