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Recent Examples of headmistress
Exhausted from filling in as headmistress at her school, Olga tries to hold the fraying family together.
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Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
Miss Fitz-Maurice-Kelly was the headmistress of the school, a semi-mythical figure who was rarely seen anywhere apart from Morning Assemblies.
—Kate Weinberg
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
Actors Jason William Webb (as tyrannical school headmistress Miss Trunchbull) and Zane Camacho and Sophia LaRosh (as Matilda’s cruel and neglectful parents Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood) are hilariously ridiculous in their roles.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
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.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 2025
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Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
Miss Fitz-Maurice-Kelly was the headmistress of the school, a semi-mythical figure who was rarely seen anywhere apart from Morning Assemblies.
—Kate Weinberg
july 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
Actors Jason William Webb (as tyrannical school headmistress Miss Trunchbull) and Zane Camacho and Sophia LaRosh (as Matilda’s cruel and neglectful parents Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood) are hilariously ridiculous in their roles.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2025
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.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmistress
Noun
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From Woodland to Rocklin and even Natomas, teachers in the Sacramento region are prepared to strike as soon as the spring.—
Madisen Keavy,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, David was a teacher and football coach at the neighboring school, Alief Hastings.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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
Noun
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Town & Country reported that when Margaret was 11, she was inspired by a prior concert that benefitted the Royal Household Wool Fund and proposed a similar idea to Royal School headmaster Hubert Tannar, who ended up writing and producing each play.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
20 Dec. 2025
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The headmaster climbed onto the stage and lighted a tall brass oil lamp.—
Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 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
Noun
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Hindsight is a fickle mistress.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
4 Jan. 2026
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The musical, about a film director named Guido Contini contending with a midlife crisis, starred the likes of Antonio Banderas, Laura Benanti, and Chita Rivera—but Krakowski’s turn as Guido’s mistress was a highlight.—
Keaton Bell,
Vogue,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Aida Crosby of San Jose, a schoolteacher who fled Venezuela in 1988 and later settled in the Bay Area after meeting her husband at Brigham Young University, has protested the Chávez and Maduro governments for years.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Will, a schoolteacher by profession and a trustee for the Jollyville school district, was also a farmer in his later years.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 Jan. 2026
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Similarly, an amendment to Illinois’ Public Community College Act requires that community college courses not be taught solely by AI or generative AI programs in place of instructors.—
Hope Moses,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2026
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Valente is a third-generation practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and was Bündchen’s instructor following her divorce from Brady.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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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 13 Jan. 2026.
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