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
This trend of inadequate math preparation among first-year university students, UC faculty said in their letter, results in instructors having to reteach middle school math while the level of course content drops below what’s needed for advanced STEM work.
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Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026
Learn to ride Atlantic swells from expert instructors in towns like Lagos.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
That many universities have partnered with tech companies to provide students with access to their shiny AI models has only served to rubber stamp and accelerate the tech’s adoption in the classroom, marooning individual instructors to figure out how to work around AI on their own.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 10 June 2026
The instructors provided directions in English and Spanish.
—Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
Those positions included the director of CCMR, Career and Technical Education specialists and instructors, and CTE assessment specialists.
—Samuel O’Neal 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026
Elite academy instructors began translating the latest sports science data and techniques, analysing world-class matches from overseas to improve their players, according to North Korean media.
—Andrew McNicol, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
Unions representing graduate workers, adjuncts and non-tenure-track instructors have organized in recent years at several campuses, including New York University, Columbia and Harvard.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 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
Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2026
Learn to ride Atlantic swells from expert instructors in towns like Lagos.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
That many universities have partnered with tech companies to provide students with access to their shiny AI models has only served to rubber stamp and accelerate the tech’s adoption in the classroom, marooning individual instructors to figure out how to work around AI on their own.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 10 June 2026
The instructors provided directions in English and Spanish.
—Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
Those positions included the director of CCMR, Career and Technical Education specialists and instructors, and CTE assessment specialists.
—Samuel O’Neal 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026
Elite academy instructors began translating the latest sports science data and techniques, analysing world-class matches from overseas to improve their players, according to North Korean media.
—Andrew McNicol, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
Unions representing graduate workers, adjuncts and non-tenure-track instructors have organized in recent years at several campuses, including New York University, Columbia and Harvard.
—Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for instructors
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Protests are expected around the stadium throughout the day, including demonstrations by the teachers’ union and groups representing the families of missing persons.—
Eduard Cauich,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic Pikes Peak During the summer of 1893, poet and literature professor Katharine Lee Bates joined other teachers working in Colorado Springs for the summer and took a ride to the top of Pikes Peak.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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The states argued that the policy impedes their ability to hire primary and secondary school educators and to staff public colleges and universities, will stymie academic research and will lead to a decline in medical workers.—
Michael Casey,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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Within a decade, more than a third of social-studies educators were coaching sports or teaching phys ed.—
Yoni Appelbaum,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
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“Instructors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructors. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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