governess

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Recent Examples of governess Set in 1858, the story centers on a governess named Winifred Notty, hiding her psychopathic tendencies while arriving to work at a remote gothic manor. Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 Isaacs will be stepping into the role of Mr. Pounds, the owner of the estate who employs the young, eccentric governess Winifred Notty. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 May 2025 Maika Monroe has been cast as a killer governess in Victorian Psycho, a psychological horror thriller that Zachary Wigon will direct for production and financing outfit Anton. Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 The roles of teacher or governess are the only respectable options open to the young women. Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for governess
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Noun
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    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 18 June 2025
  • Tune in for short episodes every Wednesday and Saturday as Grumpy answers reader questions, solves seasonal conundrums, and provides need-to-know advice for gardeners with his very Grumpy sense of humor.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Industry surveys show that only about half of men experiencing ED speak to a doctor, and even fewer discuss it with their partners.
    Ximena Araya-Fischel, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Gordo and a sibling became attorneys; another is a doctor and yet another is an educator.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Fight Night became a way to explore the soul of that shift — through hustlers and preachers, cops and kingpins, veterans and dreamers.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 June 2025
  • These were often portraits of people at work—jockeys, preachers, movie stars—that showcase the indiscriminate pleasure Crews took in shoptalk.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Daniel Eisenberg is a professor of health policy and management at UCLA and obtained a doctoral degree in economics from Stanford University.
    Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • McCann is a professor of law and associate dean at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Pageants, deans' lists, graduations or military enlistments are not accepted.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 June 2025
  • More than 50% of both MD and PhD programs are filled with women, but only 12% become full professors, department chairs or deans.
    Afshan Musani, CNBC, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible.
    Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • There’s little scaffolding or bridging, virtually no space given to centralized agencies, which most development academicians would agree still have their place.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.
    Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • 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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“Governess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governess. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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