as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person
the nurse's aide will bring you an extra pillow served as an aide in his father's senatorial campaign
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Recent Examples of aide
The same workers who keep this country running every single day—home care aides, teachers, bus drivers and janitors who can’t afford to get sick.
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Linda Goler Blount, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Wyden’s aide rejected outright the concept that the Finance Committee lacks proper jurisdiction.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Oct. 2025
Her $15-an-hour job as an instructional aide had been enough to scrape together her mortgage payment.
—Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
During a September day of back-to-back meetings and campaign stops, Mary Sheffield stepped out of city hall to find her top aide waiting in the parking lot.
—Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
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Linda Goler Blount, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Wyden’s aide rejected outright the concept that the Finance Committee lacks proper jurisdiction.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Oct. 2025
Her $15-an-hour job as an instructional aide had been enough to scrape together her mortgage payment.
—Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
During a September day of back-to-back meetings and campaign stops, Mary Sheffield stepped out of city hall to find her top aide waiting in the parking lot.
—Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aide
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Angela Bettis gives one of the best horror performances of the decade as the title character, a deeply lonely veterinary assistant and amateur taxidermist with a lazy eye and no friends, who loses her already tenuous grip on reality after experiencing one too many romantic rejections.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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The teaching assistant was seated on the floor with a luggage strap looped around her neck and tied to a closet doorknob.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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The changes arrived as more ranching operations close around the country, though some cattle growers say the president should also end aid to foreign beef producers.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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A lot of the new arrivals are already badly malnourished, as aid provision has largely been cut off for their homes in northern Rakhine – where the military has been accused of using hunger as a weapon of war.—
Rebecca Wright,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Related Articles The fashion coffee table book‘s 406 pages take readers on a journey, starting at the time when Louis Vuitton left his hometown of Jura, France and ventured to Paris, becoming a trunk maker’s apprentice.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Fire Cadet program, which is offered through the City of Milwaukee, is a two-year apprentice-style program for youth ages 17 to 19.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.—
Kyla Mandel,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Since 2019, when Woodward took over as the Gooding adjutant, that totals more than $23,000, according to an accounting obtained by the Statesman from the county clerk through a public records request.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 July 2024
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Walter Gino Antonio became the final victim Antonio, 61, a security guard and Brevard County reserve deputy, was found along a remote Dixie County road wearing only socks.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Authorities have confirmed a man fatally stabbed last week was the husband of the woman that Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested on suspicion of his killing.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Aide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aide. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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