schoolmaster

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Recent Examples of schoolmaster In the tiny community of Baile Beag, lessons bend to the hedge teacher’s whim—and, in this case, the white-bearded schoolmaster Hugh (Seán McGinley) loves the classics. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023 Set in a deteriorating boys school, the ghostly French thriller centers on the wife of a domineering schoolmaster (Paul Meurisse) whose continual abuse eventually inspires his wife (Clouzot) and mistress (Signoret) to join forces and plot his murder. Elaina Patton, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2023 In the original Irving tale, the character of Katrina — the young woman in Sleepy Hollow who schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and prankster Brom Bones covet as a future bride — has only a small part. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023 But as an older man, a schoolmaster, Kennedy Manyika was wary of his children taking too much interest in music. Andrew Holter, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for schoolmaster
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Noun
  • Cutting federal funding In a move that affects public school students across the country, the department has slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for a variety of programs, including for mental health professionals and for training and supporting new teachers.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Brian Duffy has spent his entire three-decade career in Julian, working as a fifth-grade teacher for a decade and as a principal for another.
    Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On orders from the headmaster, the teacher had asked all the Indian students to raise their hands.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • My grandfather was a headmaster.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Anat, the mother, is a schoolteacher who has passed on to her pupils and to her child the ethos of military service in defense of the country.
    Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That’s what allowed his wife, a schoolteacher in New Hampshire, to retire.
    Jim Cramer, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • The contestant who shows the most star quality wins a life-changing cash prize and a contract to join a reputable sports brand as a fitness instructor or ambassador.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The origins of the beat are unclear, but students likely started it, according to the district’s drumline instructor Jeremy Reyes, who helped lead the high school musicians in the video.
    Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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
  • His dad raced, and Vinson followed in his father’s footsteps beginning at age 14 before eventually stopping to focus on his career as an educator, first as a teacher and coach, then eventually an administrator, principal and now a superintendent.
    Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Several educators have been fired from schools and universities nationwide in connection with comments on Kirk’s death, ABC News reported.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Schoolmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmaster. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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