instructress

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Noun
  • Roy Taylor, a vocational agriculture teacher, succeeded Daugherty as field manager in 1951.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2025
  • Often, in writing workshops, teachers will talk of character development in terms of wants.
    Katie Yee July 25, Literary Hub, 25 July 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
  • Learn from three expert instructors how to showcase your skills, build a stellar reputation, and create a digital presence that AI can’t replicate.
    Renée Onque, CNBC, 26 July 2025
  • Align leggings, which both moms and yoga instructors wear, are even included in the sale.
    Nicol Natale, People.com, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • The mistress market People have affairs all the time, and some of them can afford bonus apartments for their trysts.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 20 June 2025
  • Good Will Hunting and Sleepers actress Minnie Driver portrayed this nightclub singer and mistress of crime boss Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane) in 1995's GoldenEye.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • McGonagall is a transfiguration professor, but also the head of Gryffindor House and deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • Naturally, his dad (Chris Cooper) disapproves of his son's ambitions, but a kind schoolteacher (Laura Dern) encourages his passion.
    Sophie van Bastelaer, EW.com, 7 July 2025
  • Glen in Free Willy is a basically decent, not-too-eloquent guy who owns a tow truck and is married to a schoolteacher named Annie (Jayne Atkinson).
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 4 July 2025
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.

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