schoolteacher
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He’s a retired pastor, and she’s a retired schoolteacher; together they have ample income to afford a new car.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 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
Robinson, the schoolteacher, said he will be watching gas prices every day now.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
To many people the very word conjures up memories of choking on chalk dust and cowering in fear of a thwack on the knuckles from a spinster schoolteacher.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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