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pedants

noun

plural of pedant

as in teachers

disapproving a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details They found the professor to be a dull pedant more concerned with the intricacies of punctuation than the craft of writing.

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Recent Examples of pedants Medieval schoolmen worrying over Aristotle could be pedants; so could cultivated female salonnières in seventeenth-century Paris. — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026 As botanists and pedants will tell you, figs are technically a flower, not a fruit. — Emily Saladino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025

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teachers

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Fuller is nearly six months into the new position, created as Texas faces growing scrutiny over how school districts handle allegations involving teachers, coaches, and other school employees.

— Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
During the day, these women work as teachers, painter-decorators, full-time carers.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

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