aide-de-camp

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Recent Examples of aide-de-camp All our aides-de-camp are top in their respective psychiatric branches. Literary Hub, 26 June 2025 Justices are also questioning Bolsonaro's former running mate and defense minister Walter Braga Netto, former ministers Anderson Torres and Augusto Heleno and ex aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, among others. Arkansas Online, 11 June 2025 Meanwhile, Elon Musk, Trump’s aide-de-camp, has taken a chainsaw to the federal workforce, dispatching his deputies to storm agencies and fire workers who tried to stop his team from illegally downloading government data. Julia Angwin, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025 Bolsonaro’s running mate during the 2022 election and former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto, ex-Justice Minister Anderson Torres and his aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, among others, will also stand trial. Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2025 Imbued with history, this space was once home to a soldier’s aide-de-camp during the general’s residence in the manor. Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 Accompanied by his aide-de-camp Abraham Shah (Danny Pudi), Quinn gets summoned into a meeting with General Davidson (Joe Morton) expecting congratulations. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aide-de-camp
Noun
  • Darrell Smith, assistant commissioner for school choice and parent empowerment, has said about 55% are in kindergarten through fifth grade, while 23% are in middle school and 22% are in high school.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2025
  • An invitation to visit a friend’s family farm in Kenya in 1956 led to an introduction with the archaeologist Louis Leakey, who hired Goodall as an assistant and secretary.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.
    Kyla Mandel, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • But this White House is, in some ways, rebuilding the 20th-century model, in which powerful and faceless aides steered executives by controlling paperflow.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Though the two met, the source emphasized that the former aide has no way back into the royal fold after the scandal several years ago.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Will food aid continue under SNAP and WIC?
    Terry Moseley, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In return, Israel would halt its offensive and withdraw from much of the territory, release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and allow an influx of humanitarian aid and eventual reconstruction.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • He and his apprentices host glass- blowing classes on Fridays and Saturdays (reservation required), when guests can make anything from a bowl to a tumbler to an ornament.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The house’s historical and architectural value comes from its original creators—husband and wife Sheng Pao Sheng and Shao Fang Sheng, both former apprentices of Wright.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025

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