adjutants

noun

plural of adjutant
as in assistants
a person who helps a more skilled person the senator's adjutants and aides always arrive ahead of him on the campaign trail

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  1. assistants
  2. aides
  3. apprentices
  4. deputies
  5. aids
  6. lieutenants
Noun
  • Apple is trying to make Siri more competitive with assistants from OpenAI and Anthropic while keeping more personal information and AI processing on the device.
    — MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • That’s one area developers are working on, Janna said, like the multilingual hologram assistants are at Miami International Airport.
    — Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • The office was staffed with longtime Machado aides, who had left families behind in Venezuela.
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • Democrats and Republican leaders both surveyed members last week on the college sports plan, which indicated an uncertain whip count on the floor and work still to do on amending the plan, according to senators and aides.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of aides
Noun
  • According to accounts by Wright’s apprentices, after procrastinating on drawing any plans for nine months, Wright designed the house in two hours in September 1935 while the Kaufmanns were driving to his office to review them.
    — Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026
  • According to Petrucci, 92% of construction apprentices in California are trained by a union.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026
Definition of apprentices
Noun
  • As the vehicle came to a stop, a passenger jumped out and ran, prompting deputies to establish a perimeter, according to the sheriff’s department.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
  • These picked up Gaffney as the deputies stood around the bed of the nude man.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026
Definition of deputies
Noun
  • Internal medicine physician Manjaree Daw, MD, told Cleveland Clinic that lemon balm can be a gentler option than prescription sleep aids.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 17, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • Leaning into ecology serves world-building, while trending toward biomechanics aids immediate believability.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 July 2026
Definition of aids
Noun
  • From what my lieutenants tell me, it’s being well-received, the numbers are good.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
  • Back at the tail end of the 1960s, founder Bruce McLaren and his lieutenants conceived and built the M6GT in just 11 weeks.
    — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 13 July 2026
Definition of lieutenants
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