assistants

noun

plural of assistant
as in aides
a person who helps a more skilled person the chief assistant to the director

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Recent Examples of assistants Cutié said the airport did not reduce jobs in adding the AI assistants. — Alexandra Phelps july 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026 Much of the rest looked more like chatbots, robotic process automation, and assistants in new packaging. — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 Production assistants have traditionally been non-union, and the job was seen as a foot in the door that might lead to more stable employment. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 July 2026 Calderón, a big, bald man wearing a gold chain and cross-shaped earrings, sat off to the side, amid an entourage of muscular assistants in polo shirts, poking at his phone. — Will Freeman, New Yorker, 30 June 2026 Noncertified employees – staff like bus drivers, cafeteria workers and teaching assistants – will get a 3% raise. — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026 How — and to what extent — AI might reshape her profession remains to be seen, but jobs for administrative assistants and secretaries have been dwindling for decades. — Claire Savage, Fortune, 5 July 2026 The appeals court ruled that Le Pen oversaw years of misuse by her National Rally party of European Parliament funds by paying staff with money intended for European Union parliamentary assistants. — Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assistants
  1. aides
  2. apprentices
  3. deputies
  4. aids
Noun
  • The aides allegedly worked for the party instead of doing parliamentary tasks.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • Some aides were pushing him to run for president in 2016 instead.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
Definition of aides
Noun
  • Reducing the quantity of new trade workers forced to work as apprentices is the simplest answer to the ratio problem.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Guests will hear the shuffle of San Francisco outside the windows, phones ringing, and the lingering voices of apprentices or other clients.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026
Definition of apprentices
Noun
  • The woman had been missing since May 25, when deputies took a report of a missing person in the 900 block of Locust Road.
    — Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • Restaurant staff told deputies that Tinucci had been driving the SUV earlier that day.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 6 July 2026
Definition of deputies
Noun
  • However, because his hearing aids connected directly to the ringtone, the two ended up wandering around the house, using the changing volume to narrow down its location instead of listening for the phone itself.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
  • Apple calls it the world’s first end to end hearing health experience built into consumer earbuds, part of a growing lineup of over the counter hearing aids now reshaping how people access treatment.
    — Allison Palmer July 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026
Definition of aids

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