headmaster

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Recent Examples of headmaster Murphy’s family background — his parents were teachers, his grandfather a headmaster, most of his aunts and uncles educators — gave him a natural connection to the role. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025 The movie, written and directed by Roger Kumble, follows Annette Hargrove (Witherspoon), the daughter of the new headmaster at a private high school in New York City. Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025 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. Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025 The Welsh actor plays Edward Hewitt, the school’s headmaster. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for headmaster
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Noun
  • Dozens of Tarrant County College faculty members have been ordered to pay back portions of their salaries, with college administrators saying the teachers did not meet their contractual obligations.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025
  • His educator license remains active, according to Indiana's teacher licensure database.
    Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Exhausted from filling in as headmistress at her school, Olga tries to hold the fraying family together.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • What begins as a private project, however, becomes a passion when her work is noticed by photography instructor, Paul Sorenson.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Expert instructors will teach you strategies to network successfully, revamp your resume and confidently transition into your dream career.
    Megan Sauer, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • An Australian schoolteacher journeys to Indonesia after ending her engagement, where a reunion with her first love and connection with his enigmatic best friend force her to choose between nostalgia and a new future.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Her father worked at the department of public works, and her mother was a schoolteacher and musician.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • District leaders argued that having an extra day off can give veteran teachers a reason to stay with ISD, while attracting a larger pool of skilled educators who are newer to teaching.
    Ilana Arougheti Updated October 30, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The new labor alliance would represent over 300 museum staffers, a workforce composed of curators, educators, guest relations associates and more.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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