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Recent Examples of headmaster
That same year, the founding headmaster at Greenhill, Bernard Fulton, needed a coach.
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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
For me, folklore started right back at school, when our junior headmaster used to sit and tell us tall colorful tales, oral Cumbrian legends and ghost stories, which could be augmented and added to in the telling.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Hal’s mother, Avril, is having an affair with Charles Tavis, who is either her half or adoptive brother, and has summarily replaced Hal’s father as headmaster of the academy.
—Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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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
For me, folklore started right back at school, when our junior headmaster used to sit and tell us tall colorful tales, oral Cumbrian legends and ghost stories, which could be augmented and added to in the telling.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Hal’s mother, Avril, is having an affair with Charles Tavis, who is either her half or adoptive brother, and has summarily replaced Hal’s father as headmaster of the academy.
—Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmaster
Noun
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My task is to read their unpublished, often unfinished writing—less as a teacher or as an editor than as a cheerfully unlicensed therapist.—
David O’Neill,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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An imam said teachers, students and other school staff members who were at the mosque are safe.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
19 May 2026
Noun
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In Silber’s revival, the wise schoolmaster Mr. Lundie is Widow Lundie, and the town flirt Meg Brockie is a pub owner pushing middle age.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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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
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The rector of the prestigious University of Buenos Aires, Ricardo Gelpi, said the steep losses in purchasing power has driven at least 580 research professors in the engineering and science departments to ditch the public system for private universities or other better-paying jobs.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
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Fabrizio Giulio Luca Pilo, vice rector of innovation at the University of Cagliari, has been working to help Sardinia transition to cleaner, more reliable energy.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 May 2026
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Camila jokingly called the device Tronchatoro, or Trunchbull, after the sadistic school headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Green plays Miss Peregrine, the headmistress of a hidden school that protects children with unusual abilities.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
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The group included instructor Gianluca Benedetti; Monica Montefalcone, an associate professor of ecology at the University of Genoa; her daughter Giorgia Sommacal; marine biologist Federico Gualtieri; and researcher Muriel Oddenino.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
20 May 2026
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Culinary instructor Kaylie Kotecki said part of the pizza challenge is research, and students do this by going on the Wise Guys website and seeing what’s on the menu, what different items are called and the common ingredients the restaurant already uses.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 May 2026
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The Kremlin also released footage Monday of Putin driving to personally pick up one of his old schoolteachers, Vera Gurevich, from a hotel lobby with a bouquet of flowers and an enthusiastic embrace before taking her for dinner at the Kremlin.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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For schoolteachers, this is worse than whiplash, because there’s a crucial difference between the American-history-is-all-bad or -all-good preferences of the left or the right.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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At just 11 years old, Sean is already widely known for his science content and as a STEM educator, following in Nye's footsteps.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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Kate spent forty minutes with the president of the Reggio Children Foundation, former minister Francesco Profumo, and other educators.—
Stefania Saltalamacchia,
Vanity Fair,
15 May 2026
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The series is devised and curated by poet/singer-songwriter/teacher Darius Degher who, along with poet-pedagogue Marit Anderson and local arts impresario Michael Schmitt, hosts the readings, according to a news release.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Headmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmaster. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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