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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.
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Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
The film also stars Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero; Ethan Slater as Boq; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s favored sister; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
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
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Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
The film also stars Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero; Ethan Slater as Boq; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s favored sister; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmistress
Noun
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Help on both sides of the floor With the acquisitions of Jrue Holiday and Damian Lillard, Henderson now has quite possibly the best teachers to lean on in the coming season.—
Morten Stig Jensen,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The teacher said that on the morning of Jan. 22, Hirsch asked to go to the school nurse to get a bandage for a large cut and several other small cuts on his hand.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
7 Aug. 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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Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore will be played by John Lithgow, Janet McTeer will play Professor Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu will play Professor Severus Snape and British comedian Nick Frost will play gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
9 June 2025
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Other notable cast members include John Lithgow as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore; Paapa Essiedu as enigmatic potions professor Severus Snape; and Lox Pratt as Hogwarts bully Draco Malfoy.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
15 July 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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Steeped in scandal The hotel’s namesake, Emma Koehler, assumed command of the brewery upon the 1914 murder at age 59 of her husband and brewery president Otto Koehler, gunned down by one of his two mistresses.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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The demure Italian gent and his tiny-waisted mistress.—
Richard Godwin,
Travel + Leisure,
12 July 2025
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Seventeen students from schoolteacher Justine Gandy’s third-grade class left their beds and their homes at 2:17 a.m. one night, running, arms outstretched, to a destination and a fate unknown.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Afro-Peruvian singer Susana initially worked as a schoolteacher, then began traveling across the Peruvian coastline with her husband, Ricardo Pereira, studying the culture.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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Laptops and tablets create barriers between you and the instructor.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The theater instructors asked campers to make themselves into shapes: A circle, a square, an exclamation point.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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What do librarians and educators have to say about the potential loss of BadgerLink?—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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While parents were fulfilling back-to-school shopping and educators were equipping classrooms with supplies out of their own pockets, the state that withholds money from CPS was holding a hearing to find out why the district is in financial trouble.—
Stacy Davis Gates,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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