instructress

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Noun
  • A week before, a Meridian teacher’s posters drew local and national headlines, according to previous Statesman reporting.
    Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Jordan plays Miss Bonita, a pretty teacher who has caught the attention of Cory (Kyle Massey).
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 28 Mar. 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
  • The instructor, Thiago, told the Trial Guy to straddle a young blue belt named Eric, who began to teach him some moves from the mount.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The second case was a ski instructor, Daniel, who lived in Montchavin and had a chalet near Les Coches, a ski village five minutes up a switchback road by car.
    Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This submissiveness in the teen-aged mistress Cassidy has found addictive, like a narcotic.
    Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • After long being recognized as a mistress, the now 77-year-old was eager to enjoy a quieter life without the scrutiny.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.
    Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The film also stars Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero; Ethan Slater as Boq; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s favored sister; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard.
    Robert Lang, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.
    Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • 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
  • On the other side of the room, a wooden schoolmaster’s desk is another cherished piece.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
Noun
  • She was born in 1947, the daughter of a schoolteacher and the famous novelist Osamu Dazai.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • My entry in the writing contest caused a scandal among the schoolteachers.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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