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
  • During a soft lockdown, the school’s teachers are asked to check the hallways for staff and students before locking doors and windows.
    Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Its most passionate and informed teachers, current and former players say, usually aren’t assistant coaches in an NFL building but players.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 25 Oct. 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
  • The 57-year-old son of a schoolteacher, Munir ran Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency before becoming top general in 2022.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • His mother, Margaret, spent more than 20 years as a schoolteacher and administrator.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The instructor’s compensation is far from unusual for them.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The 65-year-old exercise instructor and fitness personality didn’t rely on gimmicks to get Mel Owen’s attention.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The long-time artist and educator grew up in Chula Vista, earned a fine arts graduate degree from San Diego State University, and taught at San Diego City College and Grossmont College for almost 20 years.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There are also lectures, called Prelude Talks given Oliver Prezant, a conductor and arts educator who has worked for the Santa Fe Opera for more than 20 years.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 19 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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