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This led to Victoria Winters (Alexandra Isles), a governess who arrives at the supernatural-riddled Collins mansion in Collinsport, Maine.
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James Mercadante, Cori Chapman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
When his ex-wife advertises for a nanny, Daniel disguises himself as an elderly British governess named Mrs. Doubtfire and gets the job in order to secretly spend time with his kids.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
The majority of her patients were educated, unmarried governesses whose health had broken down under the strain of long hours of work and negligible pay.
—Melissa Pritchard, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024
According to a description, set in the 1860s, the period piece turns on a Native American woman, educated in a Christian mission school, then sent to a remote area of the U.S. Pacific Northwest to work as a governess.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
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James Mercadante, Cori Chapman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
When his ex-wife advertises for a nanny, Daniel disguises himself as an elderly British governess named Mrs. Doubtfire and gets the job in order to secretly spend time with his kids.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
The majority of her patients were educated, unmarried governesses whose health had broken down under the strain of long hours of work and negligible pay.
—Melissa Pritchard, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024
According to a description, set in the 1860s, the period piece turns on a Native American woman, educated in a Christian mission school, then sent to a remote area of the U.S. Pacific Northwest to work as a governess.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governess
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The toll readers have a lower administrative cost than payment through a license plate account or returning a payment with an invoice through the mail.Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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One of the best deals on last-minute tickets to F1 Las Vegas is at Ticket Network, which is offering THR readers an exclusive $150 off orders of $500 with code THR150 or $300 off $1,000 and up with code THR300.Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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Another is a janitor smoking in the hospital hallway, and the last is a doctor eating yogurt with his fingers.Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Nov. 2024
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So see a doctor if any of this sounds like the norm for you, or if the occasional bloody taste in your mouth during exercise gets worse over time.Katie Camero, SELF, 27 Nov. 2024
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Born in Round Rock, Talarico is currently training to become a preacher.Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
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Raised by a preacher and a professional bodybuilder father, Pope draws on his upbringing to confront internalized homophobia and navigate his identity.Marc Malkin, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
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The film, written by Lauren Black, is a gripping thriller about 38-year-old college professor Sydney Drake, who is determined to obliterate any obstacle in her quest to conceive.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Instead the country increasingly uses coal plants as backup when solar or wind plants aren't working, or when there is less hydropower available because of droughts, says Jeremy Wallace, professor of China studies at Johns Hopkins University.Julia Simon, NPR, 22 Nov. 2024
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In 2016, Ah Yun came to Marquette to serve as dean of the communications college.Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
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Pedro Noguera, dean of the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, said becoming a principal makes the most sense for teachers who want a leadership role and hope to have a wider impact on campus.Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2024
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True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible.Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
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This Jet Ski Is Not a Jet Ski 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
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That committee was the brainchild of two men, William Rusher, the publisher of National Review, and his longtime collaborator, F. Clifton White, a lapsed and low-keyed academician from upstate New York.Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 9 July 2024
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This initiative, which supports multiple languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, leverages a diverse network of academicians, researchers, tech platforms, and fact checkers.Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
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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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That points to a missed opportunity, because even a little self-reflection would reveal much in 21st-century academe that will one day look as repellent as the earlier bias against Jews.The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2022
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“Governess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governess. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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