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Recent Examples of governess
His father worked as a janitor and mother a governess.
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Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
Based on a true story, the plot follows the aristocratic Von Trapp family as former convent novice Maria (played by Julie Andrews), shows up to be governess and changes their lives.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
There is a painfully revealing example in Emma where Miss Bates is telling Emma about Jane Fairfax’s prospects as a governess to the Sucklings’ friends the Smallridges.
—Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
Set in 1858, the story centers on a governess named Winifred Notty (Monroe) who hides her psychopathic tendencies while arriving to work at a remote gothic manor.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
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Bud, the harried father and the parent readers get to know best, tracks the arrival and departure of cargo for Alabaster Harbor, a busy port owned by Paul Alabaster, a mysterious shipping heir and tech billionaire.—
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One of the license-plate-reader cameras near East County Line Road and South Colorado Boulevard in Highlands Ranch alerted Douglas County deputies to a match for the suspect’s vehicle, Weekly said.—
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The accuser reported the assault during a doctor's appointment in December, according to court documents.—
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At first, doctors sent them home from the hospital with instructions to monitor her symptoms.—
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One of the men, like Baldwin, had been a boy preacher.—
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But some believe a traveling, apocalyptic preacher convinced her that killing Noah, John, Paul, Luke and Mary was the only way to save them from eternal damnation.—
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Electrification — or gas heaters, stoves and other appliances moving to electric ones — is also a factor, said Ramteen Sioshansi, a professor of engineering at Carnegie Mellon University who studies the electricity industry.—
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In 1993, the professor chose one design for Fitch to create for a loungewear category in her final runway show.—
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Trump’s tariffs have pushed Canada and China to look for opportunities to strengthen international cooperation, said Zhu Feng, the dean of the School of International Studies at China’s Nanjing University.—
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Nancy La Vigne, dean of the Rutgers-Newark School of Criminal Justice, noted that VR could help inmates practice real-world interactions, including navigating public transportation.—
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Avery, the heroine of Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel, Flat Earth (Catapult, $26), spends many turgid nights with a pedant.—
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As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit.—
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There’s little scaffolding or bridging, virtually no space given to centralized agencies, which most development academicians would agree still have their place.—
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Other founding principals include fellow academicians Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny.—
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Chinese research took a long while to recover from Mao’s purge of academe.—
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His ideas have particularly struck a chord with readers who deal in aesthetics—artists, curators, designers, and architects—even though Han has not quite been embraced by philosophy academe.—
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“Governess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/governess. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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