governesses

noun

plural of governess
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as in mammies

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as in readers

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  1. mammies
  2. readers
  3. nannies
  4. doctors
  5. professors
  6. pedants
  7. preachers
  8. academics
Noun
  • These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law.
    — Kerry Lester Kasper, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of mammies
Noun
  • Especially when the story is working awfully hard to convince readers that Reese is not just a great rebounder, but some sort of basketball clairvoyant.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Nighttime skincare routines are having a moment on social media, and readers are asking which bedtime habits actually help versus which ones could be doing damage.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of readers
Noun
  • These nefarious little nannies were blamed for every cool model that didn’t make it to our shores, and every sweet performance option left on the table (not to mention every part that fell off of an American car built between 1979 and 1999).
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 5 Aug. 2026
  • On the series, which is streaming now, Bienvenue, Hayward and six other young nannies jet off to Ibiza for a summer to launch a nannying agency for VIP clientele on vacation.
    — Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Definition of nannies
Noun
  • From 2010 to 2024, cancer drug revenue to doctors and hospitals increased from about $9 billion to nearly $36 billion, according to research by Aaron Mitchell of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • There are so many ways that the hospital can and must accommodate doctors.
    — Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of doctors
Noun
  • Recruit interns through an active marketing campaign that includes targeting certification hubs, career fairs and on-campus recruiting, and liaising with department heads and professors.
    — Michelle Sims, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Dhillon also expressed concern over funding for professors’ work and for laboratories that deal with potentially sensitive information from a national security perspective.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of professors
Noun
  • Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.
    — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
Definition of pedants
Noun
  • Videos posted on social media show street preachers speaking with multiple police officers outside the event.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026
  • Instead, there are countless influencers, preachers, and personalities who have created niche movements with their own theologies and political alignments.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 11 July 2026
Definition of preachers
Noun
  • The team combines expertise from engineering science, philosophy and experimental psychology, supported by the University of Oxford senior academics combining academic rigor with Polestar’s automotive expertise.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 May 2026
  • These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.
    — Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Definition of academics
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