Examples of assistant in a Sentence

an assistant to the college president an assistant to the store manager a wealthy executive who has a personal assistant

Recent Examples on the Web They won’t yet be understood by Google’s voice assistant, which limits them to text-to-text translations for now. — Franklin Briceño And Matt O'brien, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2022 But new Dejima resident Martijn Remei—a part-Dutch, part-Chinese medical assistant—soon discovered that the rules had become no less stringent. — Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022 They won't yet be understood by Google's voice assistant, which limits them to text-to-text translations for now. — Matt O'brien, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022 The subplots are plentiful and full of memorable performances: Jimmy (Mr. Downs), Deborah’s manager, is saddled with an assistant, Kayla (a terrific Megan Stalter), who has no boundaries but is, unfortunately, the daughter of Jimmy’s boss. — John Anderson, WSJ, 10 May 2022 Messier and Taiba were handed off to a former assistant, Tim Yakteen, so the ghost of the white-haired trainer hovered beneath the Twin Spires. — New York Times, 8 May 2022 It was cut off after eight games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but last year, in Pierzynski’s first full season as an assistant, TFA (31-1) won the Class 3A state championship. — Steve Gorches, Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2022 Beverly Hills salon, with clear and luminous skin (and an assistant carrying a bag full of Darden’s products in tow). — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 6 May 2022 Ultimately, Bayer hopes audiences will empathize with, and maybe even relate to, the cast of flawed characters, including a two-faced assistant, a mean-girl mom-fluencer, and of course, a woman faking cancer. — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 2 May 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for assistant

Middle English assistent, borrowed from Anglo-French assistant, assistent, noun derivative of assistant, assistent, adjective, "assisting, helpful," from present participle of assister "to help, aid" — more at assist entry 1

Note: In the case of both this word and assistance Modern English has chosen the French form with -a- in the suffix rather than Latin -e-.

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