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Recent Examples of governess
But the love between a strict naval officer (Christopher Plummer) and his carefree governess (Julie Andrews) is at the center of the story.
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Lia Beck, EW.com, 25 June 2025
The 1965 musical featuring Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Capt. von Trapp is about a young woman studying to become a nun who is sent to be the governess for a family with seven children.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
In the evenings, Vincent embarks on a surreptitious love affair with Arthur, a soldier on leave — who's also the son of Vincent's governess.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 May 2025
However, the Mother Abbess (Irma Gloria) has other plans, sending Maria to be governess to the seven children of widowed Captain von Trapp (Noah Peacock).
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2025
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Lia Beck, EW.com, 25 June 2025
The 1965 musical featuring Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Capt. von Trapp is about a young woman studying to become a nun who is sent to be the governess for a family with seven children.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
In the evenings, Vincent embarks on a surreptitious love affair with Arthur, a soldier on leave — who's also the son of Vincent's governess.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 May 2025
However, the Mother Abbess (Irma Gloria) has other plans, sending Maria to be governess to the seven children of widowed Captain von Trapp (Noah Peacock).
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governess
Noun
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Her suggestions beg for readers to flag pages with sticky notes for future inspiration.—
Janine MacLachlan,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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For readers not well-versed in PC gaming, frame generation features look at two frames that your GPU has rendered and then uses machine-learning algorithms to generate a frame in between them.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This includes reducing the documentation burden for doctors and cutting different types of paperwork that nurses have to do.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Abnormal liver function tests, otherwise known as LFTs, can prompt your doctor to check your liver more carefully.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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One recent Sunday evening, about 200 filled a Cincinnati church where preachers from several faith backgrounds urged them to demand his freedom.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Their uncompromising moral clarity shaped the conscience of the West, later echoed by Christian preachers crusading for abolition, civil rights, and human dignity.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Mike Fontaine, a professor of classics at Cornell University, notes that there is a long history of comedians being silenced for speaking truth to power.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Ted was ushered into a new era of his life after his friends encouraged him to quit being an architect and accept the offer to be a professor at Columbia University.—
Francesca Gariano,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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News reports chronicle backlash against a MSNBC analyst, a Middle Tennessee State University assistant dean of students, a University of Mississippi employee and a communications coordinator for the Carolina Panthers.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The professor promptly lost her job, and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the head of the English department were both removed from their positions.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
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Incidentally, for the pedants out there (WIRED salutes you), technically this is not a jet ski, but a personal watercraft, or PWC.—
WIRED,
WIRED,
18 Nov. 2023
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As knowledge of Greek has become more exotic—the mark of pedants, nerds, and graduates of expensive schools—capturing the barbarism of ancient Greek, and of the ancient Greeks themselves, has become harder.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2023
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There’s little scaffolding or bridging, virtually no space given to centralized agencies, which most development academicians would agree still have their place.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.—
Charles Rotblut,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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His ideas have particularly struck a chord with readers who deal in aesthetics—artists, curators, designers, and architects—even though Han has not quite been embraced by philosophy academe.—
Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2024
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“Governess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governess. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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