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The six-time Emmy Award winner will play Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in HBO Original’s adaptation of the beloved books.
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Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
Every 'Harry Potter' and 'Fantastic Beasts' movie, ranked Tracing Harry Potter's rise in pop culture
Lithgow plays Albus Dumbledore, the wise Hogwarts headmaster and founder of the Order of the Phoenix.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
John Lithgow, the 79-year-old Tony Award and Academy Award nominated actor, known for his roles in Terms of Endearment and Conclave will join the cast as Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and all-powerful wizard.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The Emmy winner was officially cast this week as the beloved Hogwarts headmaster in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potter TV series, but some fans of the fantasy book series have raised an objection because Lithgow isn’t British.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 18 Apr. 2025
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Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
Every 'Harry Potter' and 'Fantastic Beasts' movie, ranked Tracing Harry Potter's rise in pop culture
Lithgow plays Albus Dumbledore, the wise Hogwarts headmaster and founder of the Order of the Phoenix.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
John Lithgow, the 79-year-old Tony Award and Academy Award nominated actor, known for his roles in Terms of Endearment and Conclave will join the cast as Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and all-powerful wizard.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The Emmy winner was officially cast this week as the beloved Hogwarts headmaster in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potter TV series, but some fans of the fantasy book series have raised an objection because Lithgow isn’t British.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmaster
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Hardin, 56, was in prison serving a decadeslong sentence for the 2017 murder of water department employee James Appleton in Gateway, Arkansas, and the 1997 rape of a school teacher in nearby Rogers.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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The Mount Kinabalu earthquake of 2015 claimed 18 lives, including Singaporean students and teachers who had traveled to Borneo on a school expedition.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
7 June 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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In a recording of a FaceTime call shared by the Vatican in January, the Pope could be seen speaking to Fathers Gabriel Romanelli and Youssef Asaad, the rector and vice rector of the parish.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Monsignor Walter Rossi, the rector of the basilica, released a statement mourning Francis’s death.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
21 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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Buy Now 12 of 15 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl Precocious bookworms everywhere found a kindred spirit in Matilda, a little girl with neglectful parents and a loving teacher who takes on a terrorizing headmistress with her special powers.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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The Boston City Council unanimously approved a home rule petition that would hike disability pension benefits for a former city schoolteacher who was pummeled by a 16-year-old student in a 2021 attack that left her with traumatic brain damage.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
21 May 2025
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The first was to flash back to the schoolteacher with the soda.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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These aren’t the kinds of problems a self-reliant horse-riding instructor typically has to concern herself with.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
7 June 2025
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Born in San Francisco in 1980, Jackson is the son of a college instructor and technology engineer.—
Jabari Young,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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It was conjured by Jacob Adler, a composer and educator from Arizona State University, stitched together from image generators, synthetic voices, and video animation tools — most notably Runway’s Gen-3, the company’s latest text-to-video model.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Francisco Ortiz, president of United Teachers of Richmond which represents educators and other district staff, also spoke highly of Cotton’s character and professional approach in an interview Thursday.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
6 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 11 Jun. 2025.
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