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Recent Examples of headmistress
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.
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Monica Sager, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Michelle Yeoh portrays the headmistress in the 2024 Wicked adaptation.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Oscar-winning icon Michelle Yeoh plays Madame Morrible, a Shiz University headmistress.
—Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024
The supporting cast is superb, with Michelle Yeoh ideally cast as Madame Morrible, the headmistress and dean of sorcery studies who takes Elphaba under her wings, seeing extraordinary potential in the girl’s powers.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
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Monica Sager, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Michelle Yeoh portrays the headmistress in the 2024 Wicked adaptation.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
Oscar-winning icon Michelle Yeoh plays Madame Morrible, a Shiz University headmistress.
—Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024
The supporting cast is superb, with Michelle Yeoh ideally cast as Madame Morrible, the headmistress and dean of sorcery studies who takes Elphaba under her wings, seeing extraordinary potential in the girl’s powers.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headmistress
Noun
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Research confirms that teachers play the single greatest role in student achievement, even more than school facilities or leadership.—
LaKeisha Wells-Palmer,
Sun Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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Tamara’s teacher, Oleh Hodovaniuk, told CNN Monday was a very difficult day for the school.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
27 May 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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Jeff Goldblum also stars as The Wizard, while Jonathan Bailey plays Fiyero and Michelle Yeoh plays Shiz headmaster Madame Morrible.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
20 Nov. 2024
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So, too, did the cities of Baltimore and the District of Columbia, headmasters of private schools and university presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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The search for a missing schoolmarm is the focus of an escape room experience at the Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton.—
Beth Lipoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2025
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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
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Desperate to interest the teen-aged mistress in stately old Victorian-era architecture.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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In 1989, Erik confessed to his psychologist, whose mistress later reported it to the police.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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The Boston City Council unanimously approved a home rule petition that would hike disability pension benefits for a former city schoolteacher who was pummeled by a 16-year-old student in a 2021 attack that left her with traumatic brain damage.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
21 May 2025
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The first was to flash back to the schoolteacher with the soda.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
17 May 2025
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On March 17, 1947, Christensen gathered with other flight instructors at a naval air base in Glenview, Illinois.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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She's been a race director, a recruiter for Team in Training for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a salesperson for a major pharmaceutical company, a blogger for Moogfest, a communications manager for Mission Health, a fitness instructor, and a health coach.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
23 May 2025
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He was born in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa to expatriate Indian parents, who were both educators, and grew up there as the country was ruled by Emperor Haile Selassie.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
26 May 2025
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This works especially well for educators, consultants, or coaches.—
Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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“Headmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmistress. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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