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adjutant, aid, aide, apprentice, assistant, coadjutor, deputy, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, lieutenant, mate, sidekick
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Because Joseph Ellis has been an outspoken critic of social and women's history, he appears a peculiar choice to write the foreword, despite his many publications on the Revolutionary era. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, he treats Abigail here more as her husband's adjunct and supporter than as her own woman. — Anthony Lewis, New York Times Book Review, 4 Nov. 2007 As an adjunct to its basic educational role, the public library will increasingly serve as an access point to the resources of other libraries as well as to nonlibrary sources of publicly available information. — Fred Lerner, The Story of Libraries, (1945) 1998 In A.D. 400 western Europe was merely a geographic expression. Roman civilization was centered on the Mediterranean, and France, England, and the Rhine valley were mere adjuncts of the Mediterranean world. — Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages, 1993 Massage therapy can be used as an adjunct along with the medication. In “They ate heartily,” the word heartily is an adjunct and in “We left at noon,” the phrase at noon is an adjunct.Adjective
But it's Sainte-Marie's less-well-known life as a computer geek—and an adjunct professor of digital art, Native American studies, and philosophy at several universities—that brings her to midtown Manhattan today. — Ophira Edut, Ms., August/September 1999 There is a terrible shortage of jobs in the universities, where, increasingly, men and women with Ph.D.s hang on to various forms of underpaid adjunct posts. Believe me, it happens at Harvard, too. — Martin Peretz, New Republic, 5 July 1999 Using his chauffeur-driven car as an adjunct office, the designer shuttles among the design ateliers of his three major collections: the one that bears his name; Chanel, and, after a seven-year hiatus, Chloé. — Carrie Donovan, New York Times Magazine, 11 Oct. 1992 massage therapy as an adjunct treatment
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Most schools cap adjuncts at four classes per semester, hence the multiple institutions. — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "How College Professors Are Fighting for Their Lives," 25 June 2019 Qatar, by contrast, seems to use its fund as an adjunct to diplomacy. — The Economist, "Gulf states are becoming more adventurous investors," 14 June 2019 As tenure-track jobs have steadily declined, universities have grown more dependent on part-time labor from adjuncts and graduate students. — Ben Kesslen, NBC News, "The latest campus battle: graduate students are fighting to unionize," 8 June 2019 That’s my mission—to use my writing and public speaking as an adjunct to my basic mission of being a doctor. — Dana Corriel, SELF, "The Rise of the Social Media Doctor," 26 Apr. 2019 Vaccines have helped control many viral diseases, and drugs are important adjuncts for HIV, herpes and a few others. — William F. Bynum, WSJ, "‘Pandemic 1918’ and ‘Influenza’ Review: Fire, Ice or Virus?," 4 Jan. 2019 The trustees released the text of their budgetary requests through the 2020 fiscal year last week, which noted a tuition increase but made no mention of adjuncts, despite the protests. — Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, "Education Workers on Campuses Around the Country Are Demanding Better Labor Conditions," 10 Jan. 2019 Their plight is common across the educational system, where adjuncts constitute 76.4% of U.S. faculty across all U.S. universities and colleges. — Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, "Education Workers on Campuses Around the Country Are Demanding Better Labor Conditions," 10 Jan. 2019 Exotic Modern—that features some spectacular examples of Paul Poiret’s clothing, including his own princely dressing robe, displayed in the house itself, and French colonial-era art in the modern adjunct. — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, "Hamish Bowles Makes the Most of His Trip to Tokyo for Valentino Pre-Fall—And Then Some," 2 Dec. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Maricopa has about 1,400 full-time faculty and 4,500 adjunct faculty. — Anne Ryman, azcentral, "Maricopa Community Colleges settles faculty lawsuit over bargaining for $112,000," 26 June 2019 For the past decade, David has been an adjunct professor of law, teaching at Fordham University Law School and more recently at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. — David Crary, baltimoresun.com, "University of Maryland alumnus Alphonso David to head Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBTQ-rights group," 25 June 2019 University budgets are balanced on the backs of adjunct professors. — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "How College Professors Are Fighting for Their Lives," 25 June 2019 An average of 38 children die while trapped in hot vehicles every year, according to Jan Null, an adjunct professor of meteorology at San Jose State University. — Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, "1-year-old boy dies in Texas after being left in hot car, police say; 13th death nationally in 2019," 23 June 2019 Mitchell Tropin, a journalism professor at UMUC, also teaches at Montgomery College, where adjunct faculty have union. — Danielle Douglas-gabriel, Washington Post, "‘UMUC is not like everybody else’: Tensions flare over school’s direction," 16 June 2019 Swayhoover lives in the Paradise neighborhood of Catonsville and teaches as an adjunct professor at Towson University. — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, "New toy store on Frederick Road aims to build a 'Better World'," 11 June 2019 Jan Null, an adjunct professor of meteorology at San Jose State University, told USA TODAY earlier this year that heatstroke is the leading cause of death in vehicles for children ages 14 and under. — Vandana Ravikumar, USA TODAY, "'It is a tragedy': Kansas baby dies after being left for hour inside hot car," 11 June 2019 Mira Rapp-Hooper is a senior research scholar at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. — Mira Rapp-hooper, Washington Post, "The Singapore summit’s three big takeaways," 12 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'adjunct.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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