schoolteacher
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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
As a schoolteacher, he encouraged his students to journal daily, a habit he had practiced since he was a boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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
She reminds me of a big, white, ugly schoolteacher.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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