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The headmaster stressed that the flag of Israel is at the front next to the American flag.
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Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 9 July 2025
John Lawlor, who portrayed one of Cloris Leachman’s co-workers on the CBS sitcom Phyllis and the Eastland School for Girls headmaster on the first season of the NBC comedy The Facts of Life, has died.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Elsewhere, there’s an extraordinarily atmospheric lounge, Bar Bertelli, which was once the headmaster's office.
—John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2025
Tuition at the school was once as high as $800 but has since dropped to about $600 as enrollment swelled to nearly 5,000, said deputy headmaster James Batte.
—Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 9 July 2025
John Lawlor, who portrayed one of Cloris Leachman’s co-workers on the CBS sitcom Phyllis and the Eastland School for Girls headmaster on the first season of the NBC comedy The Facts of Life, has died.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Elsewhere, there’s an extraordinarily atmospheric lounge, Bar Bertelli, which was once the headmaster's office.
—John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2025
Tuition at the school was once as high as $800 but has since dropped to about $600 as enrollment swelled to nearly 5,000, said deputy headmaster James Batte.
—Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmaster
Noun
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This wasn’t something that he was taught to do; my father was his own teacher, and adapted to whatever was presented to him in the moment out of necessity.—
Rich Tabaka,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Some may argue these shifts undermine teacher autonomy.—
Marielys Divanne,
New York Daily News,
19 Aug. 2025
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English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.—
Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2025
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See Episode 5, where the killer frames a schoolmaster’s murder as suicide within a locked room, the laughably lazy explanation for which wouldn’t appear out of place in a pantomime.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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Messages left with Sacred Heart Major Seminary and its current rector/president, Very Rev. Stephen Burr, were not returned.—
Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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The two were married on June 6 at the Old Chapel at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pa., by the Rev. Elizabeth Keeler, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Washington, Va.—
Jenny Block,
New York Times,
13 June 2025
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Miss Fitz-Maurice-Kelly was the headmistress of the school, a semi-mythical figure who was rarely seen anywhere apart from Morning Assemblies.—
Kate Weinberg
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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McGonagall is a transfiguration professor, but also the head of Gryffindor House and deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
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Her Jessica Fletcher was a retired schoolteacher turned successful mystery writer, who proves to have an uncanny knack for solving real-life murders.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
24 July 2025
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Born Nancy Jane Miller in 1919, Stratford was a bright young woman who studied psychology at Occidental College and UC Berkeley and expected to end up a schoolteacher one day.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 July 2025
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Helmy, the more sensitive elder brother, has been out of regular work for three years; Erich, the younger brother, has been serving as a ski instructor at a resort hotel and performing as a gigolo to some of the wealthy older women who stay there.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2025
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Onlookers at the golf course rushed to aid the two passengers, a pilot and instructor, surveillance footage released by the golf course showed.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
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What do librarians and educators have to say about the potential loss of BadgerLink?—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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For her Professional Studies Certificate at Los Angeles’ Colburn School, Lombardo’s teacher was Jim Walker, a celebrated flutist and educator.—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones.—
Sergei Revzin,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
18 July 2025
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“Headmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmaster. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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