as in teachers
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 instructors
Federal regulators are shutting down more than 550 commercial driving schools nationwide after finding unqualified instructors, inadequate testing and other safety failures.
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Josh Funk, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
The facility can be arranged with the floorplan of a typical school or office building, and instructors can change the arrangement easily so trainees don’t become accustomed to the same scenario again and again.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2026
Almost all dance students take classes from various instructors (who all have different strengths).
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
The company guides who led the group were trained or certified in backcountry skiing and were also instructors with the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education.
—Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Inspectors found shortcomings such as employing unqualified instructors, failing to test students' skills or teach them how to handle hazardous materials and using the wrong equipment to teach drivers.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Florida’s law schools have long recruited high-profile judicial and political figures as temporary instructors.
—Garrett Shanley Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
The instructors also emphasize the importance of critical-thinking skills and effective communication, which are important in high-intensity environments.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
The instructors walked in circles around me, moving closer and farther from my ears, hitting bowls, wind chimes, a rain stick, a thumb piano, and a tambor oceánico, an instrument filled with pellets that made a sound like breaking waves.
—John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
Josh Funk, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
The facility can be arranged with the floorplan of a typical school or office building, and instructors can change the arrangement easily so trainees don’t become accustomed to the same scenario again and again.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2026
Almost all dance students take classes from various instructors (who all have different strengths).
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
The company guides who led the group were trained or certified in backcountry skiing and were also instructors with the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education.
—Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Inspectors found shortcomings such as employing unqualified instructors, failing to test students' skills or teach them how to handle hazardous materials and using the wrong equipment to teach drivers.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Florida’s law schools have long recruited high-profile judicial and political figures as temporary instructors.
—Garrett Shanley Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
The instructors also emphasize the importance of critical-thinking skills and effective communication, which are important in high-intensity environments.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
The instructors walked in circles around me, moving closer and farther from my ears, hitting bowls, wind chimes, a rain stick, a thumb piano, and a tambor oceánico, an instrument filled with pellets that made a sound like breaking waves.
—John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for instructors
Noun
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Carvalho emphasized that the cuts for the next academic year do not include classroom teachers and include no class-size increases.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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For them, the ICE walkouts are the most recent flare-up in an intensifying debate over expression in schools, leading to comparisons with the pro-Palestine protests on college campuses and investigations into teachers commenting on Charlie Kirk’s assassination.—
Jessica Ma,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Feb. 2026
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For its candidates in each of Hungary's 106 individual voting constituencies, Tisza has largely drawn on political neophytes locally active as entrepreneurs, doctors, economists, educators and other professionals.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Feb. 2026
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Jewish educators and free-speech advocates say the shift reflects both recognition of Holocaust education’s importance — and continuing tensions over who controls what students read and how those stories are taught.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Instructors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructors. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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