instructress

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for instructress
Noun
  • Then one day, the teacher asked if anyone knew about the Holocaust.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Verbatim bell hooks Writer and academic, teacher and activist.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 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
  • Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Previous instructors Vishnu Sinha from Columbia University and Berlinale Talents alumna Paromita Dhar are returning.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • First, Donald asks his old pal Chubs to get rid of his mistress, Betty Jo; in exchange, Marty can head up Donald’s gubernatorial security detail.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Between the running and reading is the music, the ever-present mistress in his life and the only thing that's been around longer than his beloved wife.
    Otto Rabe, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There appears to be a bizarre codependency among residents, and Laura is still particularly close to her mentor, Tall Pines Academy headmistress, Evelyn Wade (a hauntingly good Toni Collette).
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Exhausted from filling in as headmistress at her school, Olga tries to hold the fraying family together.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones.
    Sergei Revzin, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
  • They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Anat, the mother, is a schoolteacher who has passed on to her pupils and to her child the ethos of military service in defense of the country.
    Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That’s what allowed his wife, a schoolteacher in New Hampshire, to retire.
    Jim Cramer, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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