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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
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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
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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
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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
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Align leggings, which both moms and yoga instructors wear, are even included in the sale.—
Nicol Natale,
People.com,
26 July 2025
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The mistress market People have affairs all the time, and some of them can afford bonus apartments for their trysts.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
20 June 2025
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Good Will Hunting and Sleepers actress Minnie Driver portrayed this nightclub singer and mistress of crime boss Valentin Zukovsky (Robbie Coltrane) in 1995's GoldenEye.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
EW.com,
3 June 2025
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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
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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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They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
18 July 2025
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Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 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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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
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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
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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