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verb

Definition of squiresnext
present tense third-person singular of squire
as in escorts
to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship her father squired her to the dance to make sure she got there all right

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squires

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noun

plural of squire
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as in magistrates

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as in attendants

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  1. accompanies
  2. justices
  3. benches
  4. auditors
  5. leaders
Verb
  • This award-winning book covers the critically important topic of grief that is largely ignored by society — the kind that accompanies divorce, a significant breakup, a life-changing medical diagnosis or a broken connection with someone with substance abuse disorder.
    Meghan Riordan Jarvis, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
  • All of this accompanies an oriental touch, which stems from the owner’s years spent in Indonesia.
    Allix Cott, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of accompanies
Noun
  • The justices could face emergency appeals over the 2024 presidential election.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The six conservative and three liberal justices return to the bench for oral arguments after delivering an extraordinary round of socially and politically-consequential decisions in June.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of justices
Noun
  • That’s why bucks travel along lower-level benches to detect potential does that are traveling, or have recently traveled, along the ridge above.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The journey from taggers leaving their signature styles on street benches to the tops of skyscrapers did not happen overnight.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of benches
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  • This requires strong collaboration between business leaders, technology executives, consultants, auditors and vendors to gradually update and simplify digital architectures.
    Chris Dimitriadis, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • State auditors found there were 134 cybersecurity incidents in the last fiscal year, according to a report presented to lawmakers on Friday.
    Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of auditors
Noun
  • And business leaders have been clear that those costs will likely get passed directly to their customers.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The startup plans to release the AI agent as a research preview and through its application programming interface (API), OpenAI leaders reportedly told staff in a meeting Wednesday.
    Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of leaders
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