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governesses

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plural of governess

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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

Definition of mammies

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Increasingly, Floridians are living their lives in a state of surveillance, tracked by license-plate readers, cell-phone data and cameras owned by private businesses who readily surrender footage when a law-enforcement agency requests it.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
Here are ten excellent new books that reflect the ups and downs of young readers’ emotional lives, from toddlerhood to the teenage years.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of readers

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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
Traveling nannies are coveted but rare, with some making up to $163,000 in the United Arab Emirates, according to the report.

— Robert Frank, CNBC, 10 July 2026

Definition of nannies

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Dubbed the White Wings, the sanitation workers sported white pith helmets and uniforms not unlike the lab coats that doctors began to don in the 1880s as germ theory took hold and antiseptics became associated with health.

— Rana Mitter, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Brenda González Rocha, who has lived in her south Omaha home since 2020, thinks both soil and paint are to blame for the lead that doctors found in her 4-year-old daughter’s blood.

— Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of doctors

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More than simply creating programs, professors must try to prepare students for widely differing goals for using AI in their careers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Like so many of the other professors at VCUarts Qatar, Muscolino sought out a genre-defying career, moving between experimental film and video production for architecture firms while playing in a band on the side.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of professors

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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
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

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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

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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
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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