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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.
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 2025
McGonagall is a transfiguration professor, but also the head of Gryffindor House and deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.
—Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
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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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 2025
McGonagall is a transfiguration professor, but also the head of Gryffindor House and deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.
—Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmistress
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Volunteering opportunities across each of these platforms are as vast and varied as any other form of travel, from hostels seeking receptionists, cleaners and party promoters, to surf schools in need of teachers, to local families looking for childcare workers.—
Georgiana Ralphs,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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Julie listed programs like grad school scholarships and teacher training initiatives that will be lost in OSTEM's absence.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2024
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Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.—
Duane Byrge,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
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On orders from the headmaster, the teacher had asked all the Indian students to raise their hands.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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My grandfather was a headmaster.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board took note of the hard-right’s distress, let down its tightly wound schoolmarm bun and snickered right out loud.—
Pat Beall,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 July 2025
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The search for a missing schoolmarm is the focus of an escape room experience at the Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton.—
Beth Lipoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2025
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That’s why his mistress threw in with Frank to intimidate Dale into a land deal that would have ruined any chance of Chutto’s family ever getting their land back.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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Hamida next interacts with Taro, an unwell Hindu woman forced into prostitution by her husband, who is himself preoccupied with his mistress.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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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
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Her father worked at the department of public works, and her mother was a schoolteacher and musician.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, Gonzalez worked his way up the ranks, from instructor, to manager, to director of operations, to COO.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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As a result, regular planking can help with everything from everyday activities to sports performance, said Or Artzi, CPT, a lead group fitness instructor at Equinox and creator of the fitness platform Orriors.—
Danielle Zickl,
Health,
30 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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“Headmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmistress. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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