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Recent Examples of governess
The movie recounts the story of the von Trapp family, and the novice nun Maria who serves as governess of the seven children, and later (spoiler alert) marries their father only to have to flee the Nazi regime following the annexation of Austria.
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Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
Qualley is set to play a governess who is taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 Jan. 2025
Qualley is set to play a governess taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
How to deal with air taxis working in the vicinity of Austrian governesses frolicking in the Edelweiss has yet to be determined.
—New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025
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Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
Qualley is set to play a governess who is taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 Jan. 2025
Qualley is set to play a governess taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
How to deal with air taxis working in the vicinity of Austrian governesses frolicking in the Edelweiss has yet to be determined.
—New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governess
Noun
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This is among the more expansive foreign policy debates into which readers have had visibility since the administration began.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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The publication then asked readers to vote for their top picks.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Researchers named the species after three doctors with the last name Nguyen for their contributions to fish classification in Vietnam.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
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Schwartz was a tall, handsome kid from New York, the son of a doctor.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2025
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On the March 30 episode of the show, teenage contestant — and aspiring preacher — Canaan James Hill took the judges to church with his audition for the show, leaving Lionel Richie in particular stunned.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
31 Mar. 2025
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And the battles continue under Johan’s 58-year-old nephew Erik af Klint—named after his grandfather—a medical doctor and Christian preacher who heads the board today.—
Jay Cheshes,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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Chet Strange | Bloomberg | Getty Images FBI agents executed search warrants Friday at two homes owned by computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang and his wife, who both work at Indiana University, authorities said, as questions swirled over their status at the school on Monday.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2025
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In this novel, a detective, a tabloid journalist, and a professor become obsessed with a string of strange and gruesome killings.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Davis has since worked as a professor, a dean and a university president.—
Elissa Nadworny,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2025
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Another dean, Sinclair, took Lyle into an office to wait for Anderson, who still couldn’t be reached, according to the complaint.—
Jessica Seaman,
The Denver Post,
21 Mar. 2025
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True, big global history is not for pedants and must be selective to remain accessible.—
Walter Scheidel,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Apr. 2022
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This Jet Ski Is Not a Jet Ski 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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Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.—
Charles Rotblut,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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That committee was the brainchild of two men, William Rusher, the publisher of National Review, and his longtime collaborator, F. Clifton White, a lapsed and low-keyed academician from upstate New York.—
Neal B. Freeman,
National Review,
9 July 2024
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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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That points to a missed opportunity, because even a little self-reflection would reveal much in 21st-century academe that will one day look as repellent as the earlier bias against Jews.—
The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
13 Oct. 2022
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“Governess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governess. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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