headmaster

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Recent Examples of headmaster Elsewhere, there’s an extraordinarily atmospheric lounge, Bar Bertelli, which was once the headmaster's office. John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2025 Tuition at the school was once as high as $800 but has since dropped to about $600 as enrollment swelled to nearly 5,000, said deputy headmaster James Batte. Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025 Having worked as a school headmaster, choreographer and music producer, his most proud role in life is as a humanitarian for the Ghetto Kids Foundation, helping street children reclaim their future through education and dance. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 6 June 2025 Karl Blanke, the church school’s former headmaster, helped organize a new school, Lux Christi Academy, for students in transitional kindergarten through eighth grade. Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for headmaster
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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
  • 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
  • The two were married on June 6 at the Old Chapel at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pa., by the Rev. Elizabeth Keeler, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Washington, Va.
    Jenny Block, New York Times, 13 June 2025
  • His daughter, Olivia, even married Cleveland Benedict, who at one point became the rector of Christ Church, according to the Glendale Heritage Preservation's website.
    Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 2 July 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Align leggings, which both moms and yoga instructors wear, are even included in the sale.
    Nicol Natale, People.com, 26 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The funding freeze had been challenged by several lawsuits as educators, Congress members from both parties and others called for the administration to release money schools rely on for a wide range of programs.
    Collin Binkley, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
  • Reductions of nearly 2,000 educators and staff members in the past month have already affected Griffin’s life.
    Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 18 July 2025
  • Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.
    Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Headmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmaster. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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