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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governesses
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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
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Brief endnotes are included for extra-curious readers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Since launching audiobooks just over two years ago, Spotify has expanded into 22 markets, reached tens of millions of new readers, and grown listening hours 60% year over year.—
Frank Racioppi,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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The latter are especially popular with regional guests, who often travel with their extended family and sometimes even nannies in tow.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Moving between Lucila’s dating life, her job as au pair, her second gig as a food delivery driver, and the community of Latin American nannies that forms her social circle, the film is left with little time to fully establish the contours of her family situation.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 May 2026
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And a health system’s ability to schedule surgeries is gated not just by the availability of doctors and nurses, but also by its ability to maintain a constant flow of clean, reusable medical tools to its operating rooms.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026
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Inside, the ship functions like a floating city, with pilots, flight crews, cooks, doctors and firefighters all working around the clock while deployed around the world.—
Sarah Alegre,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2026
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Instead of focusing primarily on outcomes, professors and clinics should be alert to burnout appearing not only as low performance but also as perfectionism, emotional shutdown, avoidance or people-pleasing.—
Sharon A. Kuhn,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Harvard’s professors clearly agree.—
Sage Lattman,
airmail.news,
28 May 2026
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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
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As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Sep. 2025
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In another era, Pratt would have been a welcome edition to the roster of bombastic Southern California preachers a la Aimee Semple McPherson, Chuck Smith and Gene Scott, as well as radio titans such as George Putnam and John Kobylt.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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During Muharram’s mourning period, Shiʿis gather in assemblies to hear preachers offer sermons, relate the life of Ḥusayn, and recount the events of the Battle of Karbala.—
Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 May 2026
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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
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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
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“Governesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governesses. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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