instructress

Definition of instructressnext

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Noun
  • Voters approved the Lee’s Summit School District’s Proposition C property tax funding measure that would provide around $4 million to pay for raises for teachers and staff.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the North Carolina Association of Educators is encouraging teachers to call out of work on May 1 for a march in Raleigh to call attention to the cause.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Dodgers moved longtime coach and scout Monty Basgall — known as an exceptional infield instructor — from the front office to the field to help the players adjust to their new roles.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The instructor advised against it.
    Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The multiple mistresses ruined his image; the countless injuries derailed his golf game.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Tom Hanks played McCoy, Melanie Griffith played his mistress, and Bruce Willis played a scurrilous journalist in the center of it all.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Camila jokingly called the device Tronchatoro, or Trunchbull, after the sadistic school headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
  • In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Green plays Miss Peregrine, the headmistress of a hidden school that protects children with unusual abilities.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This isn’t the only AI tool from Grammarly that will pose as a real pedagogue.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Carroll balances it all as a full-time pedagogue.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The struggle inspired a young Newcastle schoolmaster named Thomas Spence to develop the world’s first basic income proposal.
    Will Glovinsky, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.
    Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Morgan once dreamed of being an actress in New York and is growing restless as a schoolteacher in a stale relationship with Max (Jack Innanen), who she’s known forever.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Both phases will require workers – mostly schoolteachers and government officials – to go door-to-door to collect information.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.

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