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a person who helps a more skilled person
the nurse's aide will bring you an extra pillow served as an aide in his father's senatorial campaign
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Recent Examples of aides
While the top-level resignations from the Adams administration have come amid scandal and allegations of corruption, the beneficial outcome for Adams and the city has been the elevation of several outstanding aides as replacements.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
His aides had learned to avoid the subject.
—Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
That is his position, the position of many of his top aides as well, even though there is that reporting.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
With the help of two young aides, Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, Carter’s 1976 campaign was brilliantly timed and executed.
—Jonathan Alter, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
His aides have hinted that plans are under way for foreign travel in 2025.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
As his final weeks in the White House wind down, President Joe Biden and his top aides are making a home-stretch sprint on climate action, finalizing multibillion-dollar clean-energy loans, supporting state-level action on EVs and setting a new national target for greenhouse gas reductions.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The aides and witnesses, many speaking to the paper anonymously, help paint a picture of a man who needed handling to get him through the typical burdens of the presidency.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
His aides had learned to avoid the subject.
—Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
That is his position, the position of many of his top aides as well, even though there is that reporting.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
With the help of two young aides, Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, Carter’s 1976 campaign was brilliantly timed and executed.
—Jonathan Alter, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
His aides have hinted that plans are under way for foreign travel in 2025.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
As his final weeks in the White House wind down, President Joe Biden and his top aides are making a home-stretch sprint on climate action, finalizing multibillion-dollar clean-energy loans, supporting state-level action on EVs and setting a new national target for greenhouse gas reductions.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The aides and witnesses, many speaking to the paper anonymously, help paint a picture of a man who needed handling to get him through the typical burdens of the presidency.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Aides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aides. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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