instructress

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Noun
  • Hardin, 56, was in prison serving a decadeslong sentence for the 2017 murder of water department employee James Appleton in Gateway, Arkansas, and the 1997 rape of a school teacher in nearby Rogers.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 8 June 2025
  • The Mount Kinabalu earthquake of 2015 claimed 18 lives, including Singaporean students and teachers who had traveled to Borneo on a school expedition.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 7 June 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
  • These aren’t the kinds of problems a self-reliant horse-riding instructor typically has to concern herself with.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 June 2025
  • Born in San Francisco in 1980, Jackson is the son of a college instructor and technology engineer.
    Jabari Young, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Kitty was the personal assistant and mistress of family patriarch George Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor), who was sent to prison for fraud.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 31 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, Charles continued seeing his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • As villainous headmistress Miss Trunchbull, Emma Thompson was tasked with hurling students, but no child actors were harmed during the tossing scenes, which were filmed with the help of a professional hammer thrower.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 7 May 2025
  • Buy Now 12 of 15 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl Precocious bookworms everywhere found a kindred spirit in Matilda, a little girl with neglectful parents and a loving teacher who takes on a terrorizing headmistress with her special powers.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
Noun
  • English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • See Episode 5, where the killer frames a schoolmaster’s murder as suicide within a locked room, the laughably lazy explanation for which wouldn’t appear out of place in a pantomime.
    Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • When her sixth-grade class left their classroom in disarray, Michigan schoolteacher Savanna Pavc took a stand, and has been widely cheered online for her actions.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
  • Townsend Warner soon expands on this idea through a subplot involving a handsome young schoolteacher named Thomas Kettle, who comes to Loseby to help his elderly aunt.
    B. Pietras June 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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