schoolteacher
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“When it came to males, he could be a little, well, aggressive,” Gina Davis, a Pasadena schoolteacher, told The Times in a previous interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Kaufmann, a former schoolteacher, first invested in Leica in 2004, using the roughly $1.7 billion proceeds of his family’s Austrian paper, pulp and packaging empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
"It's one thing after another: no water, no gas for cooking, no electricity," 36-year-old schoolteacher Lidia Fernandez told news agency AFP.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Quinta Brunson’s scraping schoolteacher Janine Teagues in “Abbott Elementary” hopes to grow into the roles modeled by classroom veterans before rent and bills push her out of the profession.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
When Doha was small, he always thought seonsaengnim only meant schoolteacher, but it actually meant someone with a higher educational degree.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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