relievers

noun

plural of reliever
as in assistants

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relievers
  1. assistants
  2. attorneys
  3. surrogates
  4. factors
  5. proxies
  6. agents
  7. reps
  8. commissaries
Noun
  • Others newly added to the professional list include degrees for physical therapy, athletic training, speech-language pathology, physician associates and anesthesiologist assistants.
    — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 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
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • The Colorado attorney general oversees more than 700 attorneys and staff and manages legal manners spanning consumer protection, civil rights, criminal, water, constitutional and environmental law.
    — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Around 100 immigration cases are scheduled at one time and respondents must attend in person, a practice that has strained an already overwhelmed system and further complicated the shifting legal landscape, attorneys working in the court say.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of attorneys
Noun
  • Equally vital, aging misers addicted to their vocations need palliatives and surrogates for the drug of importance.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • High-profile parents who used surrogates, such as Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and Chrissy Teigen, helped make the practice increasingly visible.
    — Mark Ellwood, Air Mail, 6 June 2026
Definition of surrogates
Noun
  • Prices are subject to rapid, unpredictable changes due to factors like, but not limited to, supply/demand, weather, and geopolitical events.
    — USA TODAY, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Humans are exposed to many factors that can influence the development of cancer, including naturally occurring radiation.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026
Definition of factors
Noun
  • Using proxies for past weather and more recent observations, studies confirm that climate is warming.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Ceremonies will then be held in Iraq's ⁠shrine cities of ​Najaf and Kerbala on Wednesday with prominent attendees from Iran's regional network of Shi'ite proxies.
    — Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of proxies
Noun
  • Before choosing a whitening method, check the care label for guidance on water temperature, safe cleaning agents, and recommended drying methods.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • When your workforce includes full-time employees, fractional specialists and AI agents, culture becomes about how work gets done, not who does it.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of agents
Noun
  • It's earned through reps, context, time in the actual work and the pattern-matching that takes years to build.
    — Abe Ankumah, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Neither Live Nation nor Richie's reps elaborated on the singer's condition.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of reps
Noun
  • Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities’ commissaries for items including tampons, coffee and soup.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • In 2025, the Pentagon explored privatizing commissaries, soliciting interest from commercial retailers and investment firms to take over operations at 178 domestic locations.
    — Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Definition of commissaries
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“Relievers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relievers. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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