as in teacher
a person whose occupation is to give formal instruction in a school
schoolteachers don't always get the summers off, for some teach during that period as well
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Recent Examples of schoolteacher
Synopsis: When a medical emergency leaves schoolteacher Amanda fighting for her life, her desperate husband Mike signs her up for Rivermind, a high-tech system that will keep her alive.
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Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
In the new thriller Holland, the Oscar winner plays a Michigan schoolteacher and homemaker who becomes obsessed investigating her suspicious husband, played by Matthew Macfadyen.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
His father was a civil engineer at an aviation company, and his mother was a schoolteacher and a PTA leader.
—News Desk, Artforum, 24 Mar. 2025
Climbing out of the poverty of her upbringing, Frame studied to be a schoolteacher but was hospitalized in her early twenties, after a suicide attempt provoked by the anxiety of her teaching assessment.
—Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
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Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
In the new thriller Holland, the Oscar winner plays a Michigan schoolteacher and homemaker who becomes obsessed investigating her suspicious husband, played by Matthew Macfadyen.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
His father was a civil engineer at an aviation company, and his mother was a schoolteacher and a PTA leader.
—News Desk, Artforum, 24 Mar. 2025
Climbing out of the poverty of her upbringing, Frame studied to be a schoolteacher but was hospitalized in her early twenties, after a suicide attempt provoked by the anxiety of her teaching assessment.
—Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolteacher
Noun
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The result is teacher layoffs and less opportunity for the students who are attending public schools.—
Tinbete Ermyas,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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In 2023, Governor J.B. Pritzker, following teachers union directives, refused to renew the modest Invest in Kids program that offered several thousand low-income children an escape route from underperforming schools.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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An Ohio teacher has been placed on administrative leave after a student's family reported that the educator showed up at their home to demand missing homework.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
25 Mar. 2025
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Martin’s separation with the school district, effective immediately, comes after she and two former special education educators at Millsap Elementary School, 44-year-old Jennifer Dale and 25-year-old Paxton Bean, were arrested last week.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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“Schoolteacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolteacher. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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