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Recent Examples of advisee
According to Newton, Summers will remain on leave until the end of the academic year and will not be teaching or taking on new advisees.
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Matt Egan, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
In 2021 Harvard barred Nowak from accepting new student advisees or serving as principal investigator on new grants or contracts, following an investigation of his program’s funding by Epstein.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Our inference is that what’s going on is that the craft of research is being transferred from the adviser to the advisee.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
The project, which Marty directed with his onetime advisee R. Scott Appleby, examined the role of conservative religious movements in societies around the world.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
Of course, this takes for granted that what the advisee wants is to act virtuously.
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Yes, Grimes is notoriously awful to his students, but Alice figures that’s a price worth paying, and persists in her plan even when Peter Murdoch, Grimes’s other advisee and Alice’s rival, insists on coming along.
—The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Another time, someone else’s graduate advisee kept Lilian in her office for three-quarters of an hour with a monologue, during which Lilian did not say a single word.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Matt Egan, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
In 2021 Harvard barred Nowak from accepting new student advisees or serving as principal investigator on new grants or contracts, following an investigation of his program’s funding by Epstein.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Our inference is that what’s going on is that the craft of research is being transferred from the adviser to the advisee.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
The project, which Marty directed with his onetime advisee R. Scott Appleby, examined the role of conservative religious movements in societies around the world.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
Of course, this takes for granted that what the advisee wants is to act virtuously.
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Yes, Grimes is notoriously awful to his students, but Alice figures that’s a price worth paying, and persists in her plan even when Peter Murdoch, Grimes’s other advisee and Alice’s rival, insists on coming along.
—The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Another time, someone else’s graduate advisee kept Lilian in her office for three-quarters of an hour with a monologue, during which Lilian did not say a single word.
—Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for advisee
client
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On the agent side, depending on the complexity of the work and the amount of agent involvement, clients are very willing to pay for that.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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His law firm represents energy clients.—
William P. Barr,
Washington Post,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Advisee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advisee. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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