instructress

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Noun
  • In May, a Sacramento Bee investigation found that St. Hope leadership misled the district about an investigation into teacher allegations that a coach was partying with his students.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
  • More than 15 teacher education programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are being eliminated.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
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
  • Tough middle and high school students have multiple teachers and the same is true for instructors, relationship building must be emphasized.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • Canadian actor Truesdale, who plays ballet instructor Raphaël Marchand and right-hand man to Le Ballet National director Geneviève Lavigne (Charlotte Gainsbourg), echoed these sentiments.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • The true crime story about a millionaire dentist, his wife, and his mistress, and one of their suspicious deaths on a Zambian safari — a mystery documented in the pages of Rolling Stone — will be the focus of a Hulu docuseries out next month.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
  • His mistresses are said to have inspired characters in his novels, including Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener.
    Kirsty McHugh, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • McGonagall is a transfiguration professor, but also the head of Gryffindor House and deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 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
Noun
  • Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • See Episode 5, where the killer frames a schoolmaster’s murder as suicide within a locked room, the laughably lazy explanation for which wouldn’t appear out of place in a pantomime.
    Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Two years after pleading guilty to murder, Hardin pleaded guilty to two counts of rape after his DNA, which was entered into the Arkansas DNA database following his murder plea, was connected to the 1997 rape of schoolteacher Amy Harrison in the nearby city of Rogers, court documents show.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
  • Craft Lemonade co-founder and Escondido schoolteacher Amber Vandewarker said this recipe was created in honor of her husband, who has a passion for pickles.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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