Thesaurus results for INSTRUCTOR

instructor

noun

in-ˈstrək-tər

as in teacher

a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school had spent most of his adulthood as an instructor in the local school system

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Recent Examples of instructor Where Learning Meets the Workforce An instructor assists a student with Swift programming in Miami Dade College’s hands-on learning environment. —

Miami Dade College, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026 Meanwhile, newcomer and fellow Democrat Randy Villegas is a community college instructor and school board member from Visalia, a small agricultural town. —

Terry Collins, USA Today, 2 June 2026 Those scenes' lighthearted whimsy, featuring late-night hijinks with classmates pranking grumpy instructors, pays off in the story's earliest tragedies. —

Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 June 2026 Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. —

Joe Rao, Space.com, 1 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for instructor

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By the late 1970s, Earle had built a happy life in New York, co-creating plays with composer Peter Link and studying under the famed acting teacher Uta Hagen.

— Christina Ray Stanton, Time, 2 June 2026
With parental rights overruling teachers’ concerns, absenteeism is often ignored.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2026