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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
Noun
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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
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His educator license remains active, according to Indiana's teacher licensure database.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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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His character, federal agent Nelson Van Alden, fathered two different children with two different mistresses.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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Both his wife and his mistress think the world of him at the end of the book, for example.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Here's everything to know about the former schoolteacher.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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In the upcoming Louise Kennedy adaptation, Anderson plays Gina, mother of protagonist Cushla (Lola Petticrew), a young Catholic schoolteacher whose life in 1975 Northern Ireland is overshadowed by the Troubles.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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His educator license remains active, according to Indiana's teacher licensure database.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
7 Nov. 2025
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Jessica Knackert, a Milwaukee wildlife educator and biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said one reason is that foliage where coyotes like to conceal themselves becomes sparse at this time of year, as trees lose their leaves and snow starts to fall.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Headmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmistress. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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