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headmaster

noun

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as in teacher

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Recent Examples of headmaster By the end of the school year, the headmaster sent a letter home suggesting Hart pursue his high school career elsewhere. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 3 June 2026 Overprivileged students had a tendency to see teachers and headmasters not as authority figures but as people of lower social standing. — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026 Memphis University School has appointed a new headmaster, the school announced in a May 8 press release. — Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 8 May 2026 The chapter recently held an alumni meeting at the residence of the headmaster of a local private high school. — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for headmaster

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Leaders of the state’s largest teachers union plan to focus their efforts on passing Proposition 3, which would make permanent an existing tax on certain high earners to fund schools and community colleges.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Students identified the teacher as Dan Champ, an eighth-grade history teacher and associated student body adviser at Granite Oaks Middle School.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of teacher

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The struggle inspired a young Newcastle schoolmaster named Thomas Spence to develop the world’s first basic income proposal.

— Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
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

Definition of schoolmaster

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There was only one doctor left in the country who could do it, neurosurgeon Volodymyr Smolanka, acting rector of Uzhhorod National University.

— Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
The Rectory As the name suggests, The Rectory was originally home to the rector of nearby All Saints’ Church and his 14 children.

— Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026

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The Robichaux Academy was a pivotal location in the series and an all-girls boarding school for witchcraft, with Paulson’s character serving as the headmistress.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
Camila jokingly called the device Tronchatoro, or Trunchbull, after the sadistic school headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda.

— Brian Bennett, Time, 13 Jan. 2026

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According to prosecutors, Pocovi, who was leading a group of seven divers, violated safety protocols and regulations governing professional diving instructors, La Nacion reported.

— Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
The series follows a young Haitian man devoted to caring for his ailing grandmother who forms an unexpected connection with nursing instructor and is forced to confront the balance between love, family, responsibility and self-discovery.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 July 2026

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From creator, writer, executive producer, and star Diarra Kilpatrick, Season 1 follows Diarra, a divorcing schoolteacher who refuses to believe she’s been ghosted by her rebound Tinder date.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 July 2026
Love and empathy Dog School started in 2009, when former schoolteacher Adrienne Olivier was volunteering at a local animal shelter and conducting outreach activities in schools and other community spaces.

— Patricia Huon, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026

Definition of schoolteacher

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The series is devised and curated by poet/singer-songwriter/teacher Darius Degher who, along with poet-pedagogue Marit Anderson and local arts impresario Michael Schmitt, hosts the readings, according to a news release.

— News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026

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