headmistress

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Recent Examples of headmistress The cast also includes ; Jonathan Bailey, who is also openly gay, as Fiyero; Michelle Yeoh as headmistress Madame Morrible; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard. Monica Sager, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 Michelle Yeoh portrays the headmistress in the 2024 Wicked adaptation. Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024 Oscar-winning icon Michelle Yeoh plays Madame Morrible, a Shiz University headmistress. Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024 The supporting cast is superb, with Michelle Yeoh ideally cast as Madame Morrible, the headmistress and dean of sorcery studies who takes Elphaba under her wings, seeing extraordinary potential in the girl’s powers. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for headmistress
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Noun
  • An amateur concert pianist and part-time high school social-studies teacher, the center-right politician was the longest-serving Dutch Prime Minister in history.
    Adam Rasmi, Time, 20 June 2025
  • My writing teacher, who is a poet from Argentina, and Elisa Medde wrote for my book.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Elsewhere, there’s an extraordinarily atmospheric lounge, Bar Bertelli, which was once the headmaster's office.
    John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Tuition at the school was once as high as $800 but has since dropped to about $600 as enrollment swelled to nearly 5,000, said deputy headmaster James Batte.
    Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • University deans, schoolmarms and human resources managers penned dress codes outright forbidding the garment or relegating it to certain areas.
    The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • His mistresses are said to have inspired characters in his novels, including Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener.
    Kirsty McHugh, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • Frederick’s at his most engaging in his exchanges with Isa Condo-Olvera as a mistress rooted in reality.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Sitting at the kitchen table with a yellow legal pad, the owner and his enterprising schoolteacher wife spent a pleasant evening together dreaming up my fictional biography: ¨ JASPER GUNN!
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
  • Literature is an easy place to make a home, and my schoolteachers and librarians invited me out of Oz and onto the American prairie, the English drawing room, and to poetry.
    Esther Lin, Time, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • The stern instructor displays a remarkable amount of patience as the student bashes the unfortunate victim against every solid surface in sight — even alien beings capable of traversing the cosmos can have bad days at the office.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 20 June 2025
  • Ahmed Mahmoud, a clinical instructor at Boston University, previously told USA TODAY that researchers believe marijuana may make small defects in the coronary arteries' lining, the thin layer of cells that forms the inner surface of blood vessels and hollow organs.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • The campus is home to several historic landmarks such as the Davis Home, home of educators Dr. George E. Davis and Marie G. Davis.
    Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2025
  • This framework reflects the work of a center-right and center-left coalition of civics educators and other stakeholders.
    Bruno V. Manno, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025

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