schoolteacher
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of schoolteacher
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Sanchez, a 57-year-old congressman draws on the rural background of his mentor, former president Pedro Castillo, a schoolteacher jailed after a failed attempt to dissolve Congress in 2022.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
Thirty-two-year-old schoolteacher Princess Juliet Jombo says properties built by her late father, a traditional ruler, were reduced to rubble.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Gil Kerley was born in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in the still-segregated South, the only child of a schoolteacher and a college econ professor.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
Linda is a schoolteacher and artist who lives in the nether reaches of Brooklyn.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Yolanda, the third of the four girls, became a schoolteacher but not on purpose.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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