schoolteacher
Americannoun
noun
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According to media accounts, he worked a series of uninspiring jobs — including stints as a taxi driver, a schoolteacher and an employee of insurance and computer firms — before veering into advertising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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
He came from a modest background: His father was a schoolteacher and an imam at a local mosque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Lloyd-Lavery's cousin, David Lavery, provided a character reference to a court after the former schoolteacher was convicted earlier this year.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Polio. Tuberculosis. A schoolteacher died from meningitis that year, remember, Gloria? She was so young. Pretty thing, too.”
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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