schoolteacher
Example Sentences
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Dubbed Peru's first poor president, Castillo, a former trade unionist and rural schoolteacher, won power in 2021 on a wave of frustration with conventional politics.
From BBC
“So much strength and blood have already been given that neither our state nor our citizens have the right to accept any terms just to end the war,” said Vadym Zolotarov, a 64-year-old retired schoolteacher.
Many players were introduced to the sport through schoolteachers, disability organisations, or community camps.
From BBC
He was a terrible misanthrope, complaining that the villagers of Puchberg in Austria, where he worked as a schoolteacher in the early 1920s, were “1/4 animal and 3/4 human.”
“Wars are won not by generals, but by schoolteachers,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in December 2023, calling on soldiers to enter Russia’s classrooms.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
