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schoolmarms

noun

variants or schoolma'ams

plural of schoolmarm

as in teachers

US, old-fashioned a woman who teaches in a school in a small town or in the country In the movie, she plays a doting schoolmarm in colonial New England.

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Leaders of the state’s largest teachers union plan to focus their efforts on passing Proposition 3, which would make permanent an existing tax on certain high earners to fund schools and community colleges.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
More than a hundred students, parents and teachers are calling on the Miami-Dade School Board to say enough is enough with laying down burning hot plastic turf in schools.

— Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026

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On the other hand, Dunaway and her tart-talking sidekick, Brenda Vaccaro, seem to be having the time of their lives as mistresses of the shades of darkness (their ramshackle abode is a funhouse Ghost Train ride festooned with skeletons, spiders and tattered netting).

— Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
The multiple mistresses ruined his image; the countless injuries derailed his golf game.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026

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These include instructors who would normally be spending their days teaching the basics of how to handle firearms, pull over speeding motorists, collect evidence at a crime scene and interview victims and suspects.

— Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
According to prosecutors, Pocovi, who was leading a group of seven divers, violated safety protocols and regulations governing professional diving instructors, La Nacion reported.

— Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

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