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Recent Examples of governess Many aspects of the book were inspired by Brontë’s life, including her months working as a governess to help pay her brother Branwell’s debts. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026 The ladies Carnarvon, their daughters, and their guests—not to mention the governesses, maids, and cooks? — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026 Their governess, Marion Crawford, educated them on the building’s third floor, offering a chronicle of the comfortable home in her 1950 memoir, The Little Princesses. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 24 Feb. 2026 Like many young women of her generation, Lady Anne was educated at home by a governess and reportedly excelled at music and languages. — Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 17 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for governess

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Short enough to read in a single sitting, Sara Gran’s chilling story of an architect succumbing to demonic possession will leave readers stunned and unsettled.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 23 Oct. 2026
What readers are saying The conversation explores concerns about the imposition of religious laws, particularly focusing on the fear of Sharia law and Christian nationalism in the United States.

— Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of reader

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And one health care consultancy that finds doctors and mental health care for wealthy families charges retainers starting at $30,000 for 50 hours.

— Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
By temporarily clogging excess blood vessels, doctors can reduce inflammation and quiet pain-sensing nerves without major surgery or permanent implants.

— Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

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The preacher was arrested in 2023 after police received a tip-off, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakahola Forest near the coast in southeastern Kenya.

— Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
In the background of a gut-wrenching new album from Teller Bank$, there’s a preacher who sees himself in the biblical parable of Noah’s ark.

— Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026

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In the 2021 Senate runoff elections in Georgia, this writer did a number of stories following forecasts by Thomas Miller, a prominent data scientist who’s a professor at Northwestern University.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Shelie Miller, a University of Michigan professor who studies the environmental impacts of products, said Halloween costumes, like fast fashion, are often made cheaply from plastic materials.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026

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Making small talk, for instance, can help forge both personal and professional relationships down the line, says Kristie Patten, dean of NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

— Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Now in its third year, women make up a majority of the BHC's enrollment, according to the college's dean, Boatamo Ati Mosupyoe.

— Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026

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While scientists around the globe believe there's water ice on the moon, said Ye Peijian, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, no one has definitively found and fully evaluated that resource as yet.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2026
The framing story follows Toño, a struggling writer, would-be academician and lifelong devotee of traditional Peruvian creole music.

— Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 24 May 2026

Definition of academician

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And in the academe, there is a growing demand for nuclear science education.

— Lorela U. Sandoval, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
Different goals lead to different strategies The differences between industry and academe begin with a divergence in purpose.

— Maysam Ghovanloo, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2026

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