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minder

noun

Definition of minder

as in guardian

a person or group that watches over someone or something those self-appointed minders of other people's morals

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Recent Examples of minder Filmmakers who survived in the studio system often figured out how to effect changes beyond what their studio minders would grant. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026 Given the stakes, critical-minerals advocates want to avoid the issue becoming partisan, politics being yet another needle for minders to thread. — Justin Worland, Time, 4 Aug. 2026 The more urgent question is whether or not Toy Story 5 is worth seeing, either for children or their minders. — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 27 June 2026 As the man from East Africa at the Bamy Hotel recounted his journey, a government minder who spoke little English sat nearby, scrolling on his phone in an otherwise empty conference room. — ABC News, 28 May 2026 Some kind of cruel night minder? — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026 The net-minder won the race but lost the battle. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026 Anders Dreyer fired off a shot in the 81st minute that Callender saved just before the goal line — the second time the Loons net-minder denied Dreyer in such fashion. — Kyle Kensing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026 Grace’s intellectual humility transforms Carl from a minder into a partner. — Deana L. Weibel, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Parents or guardians must still claim and activate those accounts before managing them.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
All the accounts of her story agree that this young heiress, named Maria de Lourdes Fernandes, witnessed the deaths of her parents; her guardian then locked her up and drove her to suicide to get her inheritance.

— Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of guardian

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Some of the firm’s most successful investments included decentralized exchange Uniswap and crypto custodian Anchorage Digital.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
She’s worked as an evidence custodian, and then as a deputy, and has served in a variety of roles, like as a detective, crime scene evidence technician and field training officer.

— Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of custodian

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But with the Heat in search of offense and outside shooting, Heat rookie guard Ryan Conwell was called on to play the first meaningful minutes of his NBA career.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2026
His coronation signaled where the genre was headed—away from the pleading old-guard types and toward a more fluid, hardcore hip-hop hybrid.

— Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of guard

Noun

Wasson, by contrast, kicks off by quoting three letters from prisoners in San Quentin, from 1947, addressed to the warden.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Since the story blew up, the warden ordered at least two raids to confiscate anything brought in illegally, TMZ adds.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of warden

Noun

And listen, a number of people went to the hospital for dehydration, including the bodyguard.

— Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
Set in the 1980s, the series will follow Marckinkus from his beginnings as Pope Paul VI’s unofficial bodyguard to his tenure at the helm of the Vatican’s finances.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of bodyguard

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