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This led to Victoria Winters (Alexandra Isles), a governess who arrives at the supernatural-riddled Collins mansion in Collinsport, Maine.
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James Mercadante, Cori Chapman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
When his ex-wife advertises for a nanny, Daniel disguises himself as an elderly British governess named Mrs. Doubtfire and gets the job in order to secretly spend time with his kids.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
The majority of her patients were educated, unmarried governesses whose health had broken down under the strain of long hours of work and negligible pay.
—Melissa Pritchard, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024
According to a description, set in the 1860s, the period piece turns on a Native American woman, educated in a Christian mission school, then sent to a remote area of the U.S. Pacific Northwest to work as a governess.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
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James Mercadante, Cori Chapman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
When his ex-wife advertises for a nanny, Daniel disguises himself as an elderly British governess named Mrs. Doubtfire and gets the job in order to secretly spend time with his kids.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
The majority of her patients were educated, unmarried governesses whose health had broken down under the strain of long hours of work and negligible pay.
—Melissa Pritchard, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024
According to a description, set in the 1860s, the period piece turns on a Native American woman, educated in a Christian mission school, then sent to a remote area of the U.S. Pacific Northwest to work as a governess.
—Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for governess
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Cincinnati Enquirer readers showed up to choose the next Student of the Week for the period ending Dec. 6.Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 14 Dec. 2024
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Campus Martius is a frequent awardee among USA TODAY readers, having been named the best public space in the nation in April.Kayla Cockrel, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2024
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Lula underwent surgery for an intracranial hemorrhage after the 79-year-old leader complained of headaches that doctors believed to be the result of a fall in a bathroom at his home in October.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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My mother was in a coma and doctors were giving her a 20 percent chance to make it.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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The abolitionist, women’s rights advocate and preacher was born into slavery in New York, sold four times, then escaped in 1826.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
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Bonhoeffer tells the story of a preacher at the center of a plot to assassinate Hitler.Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2024
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Technological advances in steel production have made the work less labor intensive, reducing the need for employees, Katheryn Russ, an economics professor at the University of California, Davis, told ABC News.Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Law professor and domestic violence center director Jane K. Stoever deals with the repercussions of domestic abuse client by client.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Dec. 2024
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Allegation #3: Former Penn admissions dean airs frustrations Monday’s court filing also says the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school in Philadelphia, gave the children of donors preferential treatment.Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Instead, CEOs and deans are letting right-wing activists bully them into junking the whole project.The Week UK, theweek, 15 Dec. 2024
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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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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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This initiative, which supports multiple languages including English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, leverages a diverse network of academicians, researchers, tech platforms, and fact checkers.Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 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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