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Recent Examples of rector
When the university rector, church historian Karl Heussi, opposed Frick’s request, the students’ association, already dominated by National Socialist sympathizers, rebelled.
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Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
As for the rector’s other housemates – a pair of scene-stealing dachshunds – Lewis is happily resigned to being upstaged.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release.
—Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
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.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
As for the rector’s other housemates – a pair of scene-stealing dachshunds – Lewis is happily resigned to being upstaged.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
More than two dozen UVA Health leaders signed a letter to the university's rector and interim president, asking them to give Rosner the permanent position, the organization said in a news release.
—Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
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.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rector
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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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That same year, the founding headmaster at Greenhill, Bernard Fulton, needed a coach.—
Ishmael Johnson,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Mar. 2026
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With his older brother and younger sister, Coleman Bryan Barks grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where his father, Herbert Bernard Barks, was the headmaster of the Baylor School, situated on 100 acres.—
Rebecca McCarthy,
AJC.com,
28 Feb. 2026
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Progress with some labor groups The school board on Tuesday approved four labor contracts with some of the district’s smaller unions — as negotiations continue with the teachers union and service workers that together represent more than 60,000 employees.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Critics include the Youth Peace & Justice Foundation, a non-profit formerly known as the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, which was formed in 2022 following the mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers a Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2026
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Peralta, in this moment, had narrowed Willard down to his essence as an instructor.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Those in attendance included members of the Combat Infantrymen’s Association, multiple Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, Moreno’s high school JROTC instructor and guest speaker Chief Warrant Officer Tim Hughey (Ret).—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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The East Bay schoolteacher also killed by gunfire was simply caught in the crossfire after a night out with friends, those same sources say.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2026
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Awaiting us is Garðar's official tour guide, Arnajaraq Bibi Bjerge, the town's schoolteacher and a mother of three, who leads us through Garðar's tall grasses and dandelions to the stone remains of the first cathedral on the North America continent (circa 1126).—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
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School for Defectors, with its endearing cast of students and empathic educators, is also resonating with audiences, to judge from the response at True/False.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
8 Mar. 2026
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Put in the simplest terms, PBIS calls for educators to make sure students who meet expectations get things that other students don’t get.—
Scott Ervin,
Boston Herald,
8 Mar. 2026
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This isn’t the only AI tool from Grammarly that will pose as a real pedagogue.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
4 Mar. 2026
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Carroll balances it all as a full-time pedagogue.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Although the panettone mixes traditions from across Italy, the pastry was first mentioned in a manuscript from the 1470s, written by a preceptor in Milan’s House of Sforza, according to the Smithsonian.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
4 Feb. 2026
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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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“Rector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rector. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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