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Recent Examples of rector
Marcia, along with the late Rev. J. Kenneth Major, then rector of The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, were among several community leaders who played a pivotal role in helping to calm the community during the unrest.
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Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
The church’s rector, also a slaveholder, was very concerned with converting Black and Indigenous Bostonians.
—Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Mayall was also a rector for Holy Name Cathedral beginning in January 2002.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
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Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
The church’s rector, also a slaveholder, was very concerned with converting Black and Indigenous Bostonians.
—Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Mayall was also a rector for Holy Name Cathedral beginning in January 2002.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rector
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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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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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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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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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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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It was conjured by Jacob Adler, a composer and educator from Arizona State University, stitched together from image generators, synthetic voices, and video animation tools — most notably Runway’s Gen-3, the company’s latest text-to-video model.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Francisco Ortiz, president of United Teachers of Richmond which represents educators and other district staff, also spoke highly of Cotton’s character and professional approach in an interview Thursday.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
6 June 2025
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Roach is, clearly, among fashion’s most powerful pedagogues.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.—
Patrick Frater,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2023
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This involves pairing each nursing student with an experienced nurse preceptor from day one — an approach that builds clinical confidence early while honoring the vital role of bedside nurses in education.—
Shakira Henderson,
Sun Sentinel,
18 May 2025
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According to a recent report, a shortage of nursing school faculty, including nurse preceptors, is greatly restricting nursing program enrollments.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Rector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rector. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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