headmistress

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Recent Examples of headmistress Michelle Yeoh portrays the headmistress in the 2024 Wicked adaptation. Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024 Oscar-winning icon Michelle Yeoh plays Madame Morrible, a Shiz University headmistress. Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024 The supporting cast is superb, with Michelle Yeoh ideally cast as Madame Morrible, the headmistress and dean of sorcery studies who takes Elphaba under her wings, seeing extraordinary potential in the girl’s powers. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024 Meanwhile, Elphaba catches the eye of headmistress Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) and even the Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for headmistress
Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmistress
Noun
  • Improvement in these key areas will improve issues around declining enrollment, stakeholder mistrust and retention of great teachers and staff.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The open-plan interior also facilitates interaction between the family and crew of seven, plus a teacher and speech therapist.
    Katia Damborsky, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 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
  • The Emmy winner was officially cast this week as the beloved Hogwarts headmaster in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potter TV series, but some fans of the fantasy book series have raised an objection because Lithgow isn’t British.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Thus far American actor John Lithgow has been cast as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
    Rachel McRady, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The search for a missing schoolmarm is the focus of an escape room experience at the Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton.
    Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
  • University deans, schoolmarms and human resources managers penned dress codes outright forbidding the garment or relegating it to certain areas.
    The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Things get more complicated, perverse, even a bit kinky from there when Nevile marries his mistress (Mimi Keene) and then opts to summer at his aunt’s estate – with both his current wife and Audrey, his ex!
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
  • He and his mistress — Ruth Davenport (Mary Stofle, David Lynch's then-sister-in-law), who's eventually found decapitated in her apartment — get caught in the crossfire between Dale Cooper's doppelgänger and the long-missing Major Garland Briggs (Don S. Davis).
    Drew Mackie, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As mild-mannered schoolteacher Mr. Lisbon, James Woods plays a quiet counterpoint to his domineering wife.
    Sezin Devi Koehler, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Born in Calgary to a 16-year-old single mother, he was adopted by two schoolteachers and raised in a middle-class home in the city’s suburbs.
    Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The cruise will be hosted by pro pickleball instructor Bob McDowell.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Expert instructors will teach you strategies to network successfully, revamp your resume and confidently transition into your dream career.
    Judy Lagrou, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • What sets Whop apart is its broad approach—positioning itself not just as a platform for online educators but for any digital entrepreneur looking to sell a service, community, or tool.
    Ethan Stone, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The House proposed higher raises for educators than the Senate during the last budget cycle in 2023.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Headmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmistress. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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