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governesses

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plural of governess

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These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law.

— Kerry Lester Kasper, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025

Definition of mammies

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Homer Glen in December approved installing 12 license plate readers on access points in the village, but to date only four are installed, Neitzke-Troike said.

— Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
Until then, readers should take these issues as interesting hypotheses and case discussions.

— Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of readers

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Long after the abolition of slavery, many white southerners, including my father, who was born into the first breaths of the civil-rights movement, were still raised by Black nannies.

— Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
Panettiere recalled learning that Kaya was unhappy about taking an elaborate boat to school while some of her classmates arrived by bus or were dropped off by their parents or nannies.

— Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of nannies

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Imperial Business School has already created digital twins of professors, while Georgia Tech has deployed AI teaching assistant Jill Watson across large online classes.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
While professors advocating for the return of the SAT say the students entering their classrooms are increasingly under-prepared for university-level math, the university’s timely graduation rates just hit all-time highs.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of professors

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Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris.

— Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.

— Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025

Definition of pedants

Noun

Videos posted on social media show street preachers speaking with multiple police officers outside the event.

— Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026
Instead, there are countless influencers, preachers, and personalities who have created niche movements with their own theologies and political alignments.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 11 July 2026

Definition of preachers

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The team combines expertise from engineering science, philosophy and experimental psychology, supported by the University of Oxford senior academics combining academic rigor with Polestar’s automotive expertise.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 May 2026
These boards, comprised of academics and civic leaders, are tasked with upholding academic integrity while ensuring institutional accountability.

— Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025

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