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Recent Examples of adjutant Whereas until recently political elites had a degree of decision-making power, the war has made them into the executors of Putin’s will, mere adjutants to the generalissimo. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024 His first innovation, suggested by the director and Factory adjutant Paul Morrissey, was to add the German chanteuse Nico to the Velvets’ lineup. Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023 In postwar court documents he is referred to as Arājs’s adjutant. Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023 Born May 13, 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Gravel served in the US Army as an adjutant in the Communications Intelligence Service in Germany and a special agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps in France from 1951 to 1954, according to a biography on his website. Chandelis Duster, CNN, 27 June 2021 See All Example Sentences for adjutant
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Noun
  • What do tech leaders need to consider as the workforce evolves to maximize the gains but retain creativity, innovation and ethical governance? From Assistant To Architect AI is no longer just a coding assistant.
    Amy Gu, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • There are flavors of assistants across the board, such as Jake’s [Schreier] dynamic with his assistant [Samara Handelsman].
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The pontiff, who had been facing major health issues in the past several weeks, used an aide, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, to deliver his Easter Sunday speech to a crowd gathered at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The Signal chat until recently included about a dozen of Hegseth's top aides, including Joe Kasper, Hegseth's chief of staff, and Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's chief spokesman.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Racial profiling concerns Kendrick said the agreement doesn’t mean deputies will target people for immigration enforcement who aren’t already under investigation for criminal activity.
    Rachel Spacek, Idaho Statesman, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The deputy then found that the passenger, a 17-year-old boy, had the loaded ghost gun, police said.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The show, which will tell the story of Maul teaching an apprentice, will debut in 2026.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Abrego Garcia remains in the US Over the next six years, Abrego Garcia is a full-time sheet metal apprentice and takes classes at the University of Maryland to get his journeyman license.
    George Petras, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There are volunteer opportunities, a teen club, and during the current conflict, the Hesed has become a hub for delivering tons of humanitarian aid, trauma care, and kinship.
    Maria Zimina, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio temporarily halted most foreign aid grants in January, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which carried out much of the work to provide PEPFAR aid, has largely been dissolved.
    Orion Rummler, Them., 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Behind him were a lieutenant and captain within the police department.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
  • George was supposed to be waiting there for the lieutenant.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Adjutant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjutant. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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