instructress

Definition of instructressnext

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Noun
  • The Kaukauna Area School District released a statement on Monday saying it had been made aware of the post and that Meyer, who has worked as a teacher in the district for more than 20 years, had been placed on administrative leave.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Mata and other teachers said Soliz was unable to answer questions about how the chart was created, including grade levels and how many students were included in the data.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 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 instructor will start off by giving attendees a prompt to spark creativity along with stress-reducing breathing exercises.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Many local instructors will be participating in a rally organized by the North Carolina Association of Educators in downtown Raleigh to call for more state investment in education.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The actors sprang to life, staging a lurid scene in which an evil mistress named Selina frames the heroine for killing her unborn child.
    Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • In his intro to this reissue, Geoff Dyer called Lemann a mistress of vibes.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 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
  • The series is devised and curated by poet/singer-songwriter/teacher Darius Degher who, along with poet-pedagogue Marit Anderson and local arts impresario Michael Schmitt, hosts the readings, according to a news release.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 27 Mar. 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
  • Harford County Council member and schoolteacher Jacob Bennett will return to the classroom after an investigation by Child Protective Services found a complaint against him was unsubstantiated.
    Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In America, Vidala was a schoolteacher named Vivian.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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