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
Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
Prior to the announcement, Alabama had a full allotment of offensive assistant coaches.
—Bruce Feldman, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
In addition to her identity, her background, and her politics, a kind of cinematic genealogy was crucial to her development of a personalized yet political sense of form: when Agnès Varda visited Cuba in 1962, Gómez worked as her assistant, and the two became friends.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
Ava was made the on-screen assistant to Shawn Michaels, Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
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The veteran offensive assistant began his coaching career as an assistant freshman coach at his high school, Eden Prarie, in 1999.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
Prior to the announcement, Alabama had a full allotment of offensive assistant coaches.
—Bruce Feldman, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
In addition to her identity, her background, and her politics, a kind of cinematic genealogy was crucial to her development of a personalized yet political sense of form: when Agnès Varda visited Cuba in 1962, Gómez worked as her assistant, and the two became friends.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
Ava was made the on-screen assistant to Shawn Michaels, Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assistant
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Image Trump aides backpedaled on his Gaza plan President Trump’s surprise proposal that the U.S. take over Gaza, driving nearly two million Palestinians out, shocked even senior officials at his own White House.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
6 Feb. 2025
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Other matters of note this week at the Capitol: Ethics committee On Tuesday at 8 a.m., the Senate Ethics Committee will again meet to discuss allegations that Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, a Longmont Democrat, mistreated her aides.—
Nick Coltrain,
The Denver Post,
3 Feb. 2025
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An expansion planned by Wright but completed after his death by Taliesin apprentices John Howe and William Wesley Peters was tacked on in 1961, adding laundry and family rooms to the house and a greenhouse to the grounds.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
16 Jan. 2025
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Mentoring has become routine in many industries, reminiscent of the old apprentice model where the mentee watches the expert at work and learns firsthand through example and discussion.—
Gregory Crawford,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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At the scene, deputies discovered the victim was a 39-year-old off-duty corrections deputy.—
Christina Shaw,
Fox News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The incident occurred at 7:32 p.m. when deputies from the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office in Florida were dispatched to reports of gunfire in the 1400 block of NW Avenue D, in Belle Glade, according to a statement from the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday.—
Jon Haworth,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But all our doctrines are subordinate to the question of who Jesus is.—
Gordon Pennertz,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Annoyed by her subordinate role at Atelier (though she’s had the job for less than six months), Kriska boldly declares that Monica is self-centered.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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Efforts to dismantle the agency, which provides humanitarian and development aid, are moving at a frenetic pace.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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And both government and healthcare employers could soon feel the effects of the Trump administration’s moves to pare federal payrolls and public aid that is critical for health services and social assistance.—
Don Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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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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Wallace is a cheese-loving inventor living in Yorkshire, north England, with his incredibly bright sidekick Gromit (who happens to be a beagle).—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Feb. 2025
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Quan, now 53, also recalls Ford consoling him while filming that frightening sequence, which sees Ford's titular explorer and Quan's sidekick character, Short Round, chart an escape from the Temple of Doom.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Assistant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assistant. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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