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Even the prolific scientist and inventor Benjamin Franklin, who would play a key role in both the American Revolution and the foundation of the new republic, took time out of a diplomatic trip to England to visit the intelligent rector.
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Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Believers from across the Chicago area came to visit the Pilgrim Mother, which was blessed by Monsignor Efraín Hernández Díaz, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
—Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
During that time, Gau was also rector and minister of the high school's Jesuit community.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Feb. 2024
White served on the board of visitors at Virginia Tech and was vice rector and rector there.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2021
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Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Believers from across the Chicago area came to visit the Pilgrim Mother, which was blessed by Monsignor Efraín Hernández Díaz, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
—Paulina Czupryna, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
During that time, Gau was also rector and minister of the high school's Jesuit community.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Feb. 2024
White served on the board of visitors at Virginia Tech and was vice rector and rector there.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rector
Noun
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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
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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
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Town & Country reported that when Margaret was 11, she was inspired by a prior concert that benefitted the Royal Household Wool Fund and proposed a similar idea to Royal School headmaster Hubert Tannar, who ended up writing and producing each play.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
20 Dec. 2025
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The headmaster climbed onto the stage and lighted a tall brass oil lamp.—
Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
Noun
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From Woodland to Rocklin and even Natomas, teachers in the Sacramento region are prepared to strike as soon as the spring.—
Madisen Keavy,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, David was a teacher and football coach at the neighboring school, Alief Hastings.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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Similarly, an amendment to Illinois’ Public Community College Act requires that community college courses not be taught solely by AI or generative AI programs in place of instructors.—
Hope Moses,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2026
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Valente is a third-generation practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and was Bündchen’s instructor following her divorce from Brady.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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Aida Crosby of San Jose, a schoolteacher who fled Venezuela in 1988 and later settled in the Bay Area after meeting her husband at Brigham Young University, has protested the Chávez and Maduro governments for years.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Will, a schoolteacher by profession and a trustee for the Jollyville school district, was also a farmer in his later years.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 Jan. 2026
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His educator license remains active, according to Indiana's teacher licensure database.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
7 Nov. 2025
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Jessica Knackert, a Milwaukee wildlife educator and biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said one reason is that foliage where coyotes like to conceal themselves becomes sparse at this time of year, as trees lose their leaves and snow starts to fall.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
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They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
18 July 2025
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This involves pairing each nursing student with an experienced nurse preceptor from day one — an approach that builds clinical confidence early while honoring the vital role of bedside nurses in education.—
Shakira Henderson,
Sun Sentinel,
18 May 2025
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To become a preceptor, nurses must undergo extensive training—often at their own expense.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Rector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rector. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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