headmistress

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Recent Examples of headmistress Neither the stage production nor the musical can do much with the melodramatic Madame Morrible, the headmistress at Shiz who becomes a key player in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz’s fascist machinations. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024 The cast also includes ; Jonathan Bailey, who is also openly gay, as Fiyero; Michelle Yeoh as headmistress Madame Morrible; and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard. Monica Sager, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 The film also stars Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, a prince who finds himself in a love triangle with the two witches; Ethan Slater as lovesick munchkin Boq; Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, the untrustworthy headmistress of Shiz University; and Jeff Goldblum as the not-so-wonderful Wizard of Oz. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 28 Nov. 2024 Oscar-winning icon Michelle Yeoh plays Madame Morrible, a Shiz University headmistress. Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for headmistress
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Noun
  • Natalia is currently studying for her GED, dreaming of one day becoming a teacher, People reports.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Nearly a year later, in October 2024, the Steubenville teacher and thousands of other pro-lifers (including some of his students) converged on Capitol Square in Columbus for the Ohio March for Life.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 20 Feb. 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 teen boy found shot dead early Tuesday in Little Rock was a freshman at Catholic High School for Boys, an athlete and a musician, according to statements from his parents and the school's headmaster.
    Grant Lancaster, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The goal is to have a new headmaster in place ahead of the 2025-26 school year.
    Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • University deans, schoolmarms and human resources managers penned dress codes outright forbidding the garment or relegating it to certain areas.
    The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Visitors can relive a school experience from the early 20th century, complete with a schoolmarm and an outhouse.
    jshortavon, cleveland, 23 July 2023
Noun
  • Amanda’s cause of death is determined to be strangulation, and the series soon presents other possible suspects: the older man Ebba was involved with and the husband of Harald’s mistress, Mira.
    Isadora Wandermurem, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Any Vanderpump Rules fan will remember Ariana Maddix calling his mistress a dementor, so this reference feels particularly apt.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874, moved across the country following the death of his dissolute, larger-than-life father, and made a series of homes in mill towns north of Boston with his mother, who was a schoolteacher, and his younger sister.
    Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The sickening explosion, on a clear and cold January morning, was witnessed by children in classrooms across the country because the crew included Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire schoolteacher who was to be the first American civilian in space.
    Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Swami Chandrasekaran, an A.I. expert and principal at KPMG, said the gains included using the software assistant as a kind of automated instructor to bring new members of a development team up to speed quickly.
    Steve Lohr, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor at the University of Tennessee at Martin, emphasized the necessity of implementing changes to ensure Social Security's viability for future generations.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Breastfeeding educators will discuss the benefits and the common challenges of breastfeeding.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2025
  • This paperwork-heavy process not only burns out educators but also diverts resources away from the students who need them most.
    Scott White, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025

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