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instructor

[in-struhk-ter] / ɪnˈstrʌk tər /


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He wanted to become a fitness instructor and start a family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Marine Corps helicopter pilot and a helicopter accident investigation instructor at USC’s Aviation Safety and Security Program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Neither the driver nor the instructor recognised the alarm as an AWS warning, and it was not acknowledged within the required window.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

In chapters set in the near present, Livia Cable is a childless, middle-aged piano instructor in rural eastern Tennessee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

There are off-hour trips to silent museums, where the boy tries and fails to walk through galleries as quietly as his instructor does, cringing when each footfall echoes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

“When you’re playing music,” Densmore told about 30 students and instructors, you can enter a state of timelessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

But traditional teaching credentials won’t be required of the academy’s instructors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Army instructors say training in traditional skills has broader importance.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

"I was diving in the Clyde and one of the instructors had to pull me out of the way of the tentacles as it was wafting above me," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Drawing from sources as diverse as aikido and barroom brawls, the instructors taught us ways to tangle with an attacking or resisting inmate that you weren’t likely to see in, say, a John Wayne movie.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover


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