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
Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2025
Prompt injection has created a significant barrier to building trustworthy AI assistants, which may be why general-purpose Big Tech AI like Apple's Siri doesn't currently work like ChatGPT.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
Khloe Quill is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
The people being hired are not coming up as assistants or development executives but are independent, freelance financiers and storytellers, or part of Proximity’s popular internship program.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2025
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Wonders costars as Quinn Hackett, Remick’s overeager assistant.
—Cat Cardenas, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2025
Prompt injection has created a significant barrier to building trustworthy AI assistants, which may be why general-purpose Big Tech AI like Apple's Siri doesn't currently work like ChatGPT.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
Khloe Quill is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
The people being hired are not coming up as assistants or development executives but are independent, freelance financiers and storytellers, or part of Proximity’s popular internship program.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assistant
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School board President Sean Harden, who was appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, delayed a vote on a budget amendment last Thursday that would have opened the door for a borrowing scenario to cover both costs proposed by Johnson’s top aides.—
Gregory Royal Pratt,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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An aide said the tariffs are expected to produce $100 billion a year in revenue for the federal government.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
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No poaching, only growing Earlier this month, Villasenor started working as a technician apprentice at Gene Butman Ford in Ypsilanti, Michigan.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
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Shelley Webb is a supervising deputy in the criminal division of the City Attorney’s Office.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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Two men were killed in a shooting near West Palm Beach on Saturday afternoon, deputies said.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Look at rumors, gossip, metaphors, euphemisms, folktales—all the means by which subordinate groups disguise their opposition.—
Nikil Saval,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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As subsidiaries, they are often deprived of strategic independence and fiscal autonomy, rendering long-term growth plans subordinate to broader organizational priorities.—
Priya Oberoi,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Trump had repeatedly hinted that a future peace deal would include Ukrainian territorial and political concessions and be twinned with the curtailment of U.S. aid to Kyiv.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2025
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Shaheen replied that foreign aid comprises only about 1% of the federal budget and asked Burch to name examples of aid that conflicted with U.S. foreign policy.—
Peter Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.—
Kyla Mandel,
TIME,
20 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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The two spent the intervening years turning their penchant for absurdist humor into sketch comedy shows, radio episodes, stand up poetry tours and sidekick roles in film and television.—
Nicole Sperling,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Xan and Loren are similarly presented as a pair of saloon villains right out of an old-school western: the bully and his blubbering idiot sidekick.—
Bartolomeo Sala,
The Dial,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Assistant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assistant. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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