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Having worked as a school headmaster, choreographer and music producer, his most proud role in life is as a humanitarian for the Ghetto Kids Foundation, helping street children reclaim their future through education and dance.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 June 2025
Karl Blanke, the church school’s former headmaster, helped organize a new school, Lux Christi Academy, for students in transitional kindergarten through eighth grade.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2025
John Lithgow is looking forward to playing Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’s headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 19 Apr. 2025
Jeff Goldblum also stars as The Wizard, while Jonathan Bailey plays Fiyero and Michelle Yeoh plays Shiz headmaster Madame Morrible.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 June 2025
Karl Blanke, the church school’s former headmaster, helped organize a new school, Lux Christi Academy, for students in transitional kindergarten through eighth grade.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2025
John Lithgow is looking forward to playing Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’s headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series.
—Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 19 Apr. 2025
Jeff Goldblum also stars as The Wizard, while Jonathan Bailey plays Fiyero and Michelle Yeoh plays Shiz headmaster Madame Morrible.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmaster
Noun
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In May, a Sacramento Bee investigation found that St. Hope leadership misled the district about an investigation into teacher allegations that a coach was partying with his students.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
1 July 2025
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Former middle school teacher Lorraine Carter Salazar isn't easily embarrassed.—
Megan Myscofski,
NPR,
1 July 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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His daughter, Olivia, even married Cleveland Benedict, who at one point became the rector of Christ Church, according to the Glendale Heritage Preservation's website.—
Aaron Valdez,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Near the end of the service, the rector announced who the pope was — an American-born from Chicago.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 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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As villainous headmistress Miss Trunchbull, Emma Thompson was tasked with hurling students, but no child actors were harmed during the tossing scenes, which were filmed with the help of a professional hammer thrower.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
7 May 2025
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Two years after pleading guilty to murder, Hardin pleaded guilty to two counts of rape after his DNA, which was entered into the Arkansas DNA database following his murder plea, was connected to the 1997 rape of schoolteacher Amy Harrison in the nearby city of Rogers, court documents show.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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Craft Lemonade co-founder and Escondido schoolteacher Amber Vandewarker said this recipe was created in honor of her husband, who has a passion for pickles.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2025
Noun
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Tough middle and high school students have multiple teachers and the same is true for instructors, relationship building must be emphasized.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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Canadian actor Truesdale, who plays ballet instructor Raphaël Marchand and right-hand man to Le Ballet National director Geneviève Lavigne (Charlotte Gainsbourg), echoed these sentiments.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
29 June 2025
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The campus is home to several historic landmarks such as the Davis Home, home of educators Dr. George E. Davis and Marie G. Davis.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2025
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This framework reflects the work of a center-right and center-left coalition of civics educators and other stakeholders.—
Bruno V. Manno,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.—
Patrick Frater,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2023
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“Headmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmaster. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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