rector

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for rector
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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
  • That same year, the founding headmaster at Greenhill, Bernard Fulton, needed a coach.
    Ishmael Johnson, Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • From parents getting their students ready for school, bus drivers getting them there, the nurses, cafeteria staff, teachers.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Franklin spent the first 29 years of his career in Sand Springs Public Schools as a special education teacher, principal and district administrator.
    Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report that the Piper PA-28-140 experienced rapidly declining engine performance shortly after departing from Deer Valley Airport on March 4, forcing the instructor to attempt an emergency return.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Katherine Rochester is an editor at Artforum and an instructor in the MA in Curatorial Practice Program at the School of Visual Arts, in New York City.
    Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Ryan Gosling stars as neurotic and brilliant schoolteacher Ryland Grace, who is recruited by Eva Stratt (Sandra Hüller) to help solve why the sun is dimming.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Linda Cooper, a former South Carolina schoolteacher, says she’s been struck six times, and so does Carl Mize, a former Oklahoma rodeo rider.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Convince the city’s powers to consult with advisers and decision-makers with deep roots in the neighborhoods — community leaders, organizers, educators and art-makers.
    Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • That conversation, Tabatabai said, was just the start of what will be a long-term reframing of how educators teach about Chavez and the farmworkers movement — something teachers across the state already have begun to reckon with since the allegations arose.
    Kristy Hutchings, Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This isn’t the only AI tool from Grammarly that will pose as a real pedagogue.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Carroll balances it all as a full-time pedagogue.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 3 Apr. 2026.

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