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Where Shy was the subject of Porter’s slender book — which is really more of a beat-poetry day-in-the-life monologue — the focus shifts here to the weary headmaster who’s been fighting on the students’ behalf all these years.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The Welsh actor plays Edward Hewitt, the school’s headmaster.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
The show’s monsters can be startlingly intense, in fact, but none of them matches the strangeness of Steve Buscemi, as Nevermore’s new headmaster, dancing to Bruce Springsteen.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Under the scrutiny of an all-seeing headmaster, Doechii and her nine dancers-turned-classmates pushed school desks into formations and climbed an oversized boombox with slides, exemplifying what above-and-beyond achievement truly means.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2025
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The Welsh actor plays Edward Hewitt, the school’s headmaster.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
The show’s monsters can be startlingly intense, in fact, but none of them matches the strangeness of Steve Buscemi, as Nevermore’s new headmaster, dancing to Bruce Springsteen.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Under the scrutiny of an all-seeing headmaster, Doechii and her nine dancers-turned-classmates pushed school desks into formations and climbed an oversized boombox with slides, exemplifying what above-and-beyond achievement truly means.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmaster
Noun
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Then one day, the teacher asked if anyone knew about the Holocaust.—
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Verbatim bell hooks Writer and academic, teacher and activist.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Oct. 2025
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His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 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
Noun
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As for the rector’s other housemates – a pair of scene-stealing dachshunds – Lewis is happily resigned to being upstaged.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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There appears to be a bizarre codependency among residents, and Laura is still particularly close to her mentor, Tall Pines Academy headmistress, Evelyn Wade (a hauntingly good Toni Collette).—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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Exhausted from filling in as headmistress at her school, Olga tries to hold the fraying family together.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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Anat, the mother, is a schoolteacher who has passed on to her pupils and to her child the ethos of military service in defense of the country.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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That’s what allowed his wife, a schoolteacher in New Hampshire, to retire.—
Jim Cramer,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Previous instructors Vishnu Sinha from Columbia University and Berlinale Talents alumna Paromita Dhar are returning.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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Turnover among educators in Wisconsin public schools has declined from pandemic-era highs but remains elevated, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum.—
Kayla Huynh,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The heroism of educators and staff who kept students quiet under pews and sheltered in a downstairs classroom is vividly revealed.—
Michael Dorgan , Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 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 8 Oct. 2025.
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