as in aide
a person who helps a more skilled person
the chief assistant to the director
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Recent Examples of assistant
James Brizuela, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Golden is a lawyer who has served as the first assistant in the Jefferson County Attorney's Office and as Louisville's Chief of Public Services.
—Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
The two companies joined forces in 2019 to create a pair of glasses powered by Meta’s AI assistant and with a tiny camera on the rim.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
Dakota worked on the opposite side of the camera as an art production assistant on the 2009 supernatural thriller Lost Soul.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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He was named an assistant, but not the offensive coordinator.
—James Brizuela, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Golden is a lawyer who has served as the first assistant in the Jefferson County Attorney's Office and as Louisville's Chief of Public Services.
—Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
The two companies joined forces in 2019 to create a pair of glasses powered by Meta’s AI assistant and with a tiny camera on the rim.
—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
Dakota worked on the opposite side of the camera as an art production assistant on the 2009 supernatural thriller Lost Soul.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Those who leave child care have gone on to work as elementary or middle school teachers, teacher's assistants, nurses, home health aides, or even cashiers, the MTF wrote, citing a recent Rappaport Institute report.Steph Solis, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
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While it was not immediately known who could run to replace Barnes, one name being mentioned by some is former state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr., who was an aide to Whitmer and lost a race to fill Slotkin's U.S. House seat last week to former state Sen. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte.Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
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Most technicians hired at TSMC won't go through the apprentice program.Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
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The next night, those same ensigns ordered an apprentice to take the watchful pedometer and shake it while the night watchmen took their normal rest.Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
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Hager finished his 35-year military career as deputy commanding general for operations, Cyber National Mission Force and mobilization assistant to the commander for USCYBERCOM.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Firefighters and sheriff's deputies push a vintage car away from a burning home in Camarillo, Calif., on Wednesday.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The president, in other words, is increasingly subordinate to the courts.Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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This subordinate specification could allow regulators to implement auditing capabilities world-wide.James Felton Keith, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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But these tools didn't get the full picture and were more like functional aids than strategic assets.Ron Cameron, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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All proceeds will benefit Band Aid Trust, which has raised more than $175 million for famine relief and emergency aid.SPIN Staff, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2024
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In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership.Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024
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Since 2019, when Woodward took over as the Gooding adjutant, that totals more than $23,000, according to an accounting obtained by the Statesman from the county clerk through a public records request.Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024
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In this 2008 film, Igor (John Cusack) decides he’s done being a sidekick and becomes an inventor himself.Keith Langston, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
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This team has, so far, failed to solve its biggest problem from last season: Curry lacks a bonafide sidekick, the kind of No. 2 that can carry a team if Curry has a bad game (those are more frequent these days) or, heaven forbid, is sidelined.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Assistant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assistant. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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