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Recent Examples of headmaster
Jeff Goldblum also stars as The Wizard, while Jonathan Bailey plays Fiyero and Michelle Yeoh plays Shiz headmaster Madame Morrible.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
So, too, did the cities of Baltimore and the District of Columbia, headmasters of private schools and university presidents.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
The Hogwarts headmaster was previously played by the late Richard Harris and Michael Gambon in the original film series.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
While no one is balking at Lithgow, an American actor, playing the beloved Hogwarts headmaster, a wave of angry comments have popped up across various HBO socials, where fans of the book are protesting Essiedu’s casting.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
So, too, did the cities of Baltimore and the District of Columbia, headmasters of private schools and university presidents.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
The Hogwarts headmaster was previously played by the late Richard Harris and Michael Gambon in the original film series.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
While no one is balking at Lithgow, an American actor, playing the beloved Hogwarts headmaster, a wave of angry comments have popped up across various HBO socials, where fans of the book are protesting Essiedu’s casting.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmaster
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In a recording of a FaceTime call shared by the Vatican in January, the Pope could be seen speaking to Fathers Gabriel Romanelli and Youssef Asaad, the rector and vice rector of the parish.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Monsignor Walter Rossi, the rector of the basilica, released a statement mourning Francis’s death.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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The wet lease includes a pilot available to run the sub on demand, although those who prefer to keep their hands on the wheel can gain certification at the company’s training center in Curacao or have an instructor come to them for onboard lessons.—
J. George Gorant,
Robb Report,
6 June 2025
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It was conjured by Jacob Adler, a composer and educator from Arizona State University, stitched together from image generators, synthetic voices, and video animation tools — most notably Runway’s Gen-3, the company’s latest text-to-video model.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Francisco Ortiz, president of United Teachers of Richmond which represents educators and other district staff, also spoke highly of Cotton’s character and professional approach in an interview Thursday.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
6 June 2025
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Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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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
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“Headmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmaster. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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