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a person who helps a more skilled person
the chief assistant to the director
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Recent Examples of assistants
Instead of allowing a disability exception, colleges with tech bans should provide peer tutors, teaching assistants, and writing centers to help students who require extra assistance—low-tech strategies that decades of pedagogical research show to be effective in making education more accessible.
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Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
Google and Amazon have begun testing ways for their assistants to handle transactions directly, not just recommend products.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Its chips can power in-car entertainment systems, for example, and on Monday, the company announced a partnership with Google Cloud that allows automakers to create their own digital assistants.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
More than 200 volunteer dentists, hygienists, and dental assistants, backed by the nonprofit TeamSmile organization and the Chiefs, provided free dental care Tuesday to 300 children from Kansas City-area schools.
—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
These failures occurred when the AI models confabulated successful operations and built subsequent actions on false premises, highlighting the risks of depending on AI assistants that can misinterpret file structures or fabricate data to hide their errors.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
The contract covers licensed staff, educational assistants, and school and community service professionals, with 3,287 full-time employees included in the teachers’ bargaining unit.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 10 Sep. 2025
Dan Bale, who has known Skinner for a long time, joined in November 2023 and Carl Green, who worked with Skinner at Orlando Pride and Birmingham City, remain as first-team assistants.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Both companies develop large language models and AI assistants—OpenAI with ChatGPT, xAI with Grok—that target overlapping user bases.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
Google and Amazon have begun testing ways for their assistants to handle transactions directly, not just recommend products.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Its chips can power in-car entertainment systems, for example, and on Monday, the company announced a partnership with Google Cloud that allows automakers to create their own digital assistants.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
More than 200 volunteer dentists, hygienists, and dental assistants, backed by the nonprofit TeamSmile organization and the Chiefs, provided free dental care Tuesday to 300 children from Kansas City-area schools.
—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
These failures occurred when the AI models confabulated successful operations and built subsequent actions on false premises, highlighting the risks of depending on AI assistants that can misinterpret file structures or fabricate data to hide their errors.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
The contract covers licensed staff, educational assistants, and school and community service professionals, with 3,287 full-time employees included in the teachers’ bargaining unit.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 10 Sep. 2025
Dan Bale, who has known Skinner for a long time, joined in November 2023 and Carl Green, who worked with Skinner at Orlando Pride and Birmingham City, remain as first-team assistants.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Both companies develop large language models and AI assistants—OpenAI with ChatGPT, xAI with Grok—that target overlapping user bases.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assistants
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By contrast, most care facilities experience staffing shortages, high turnover rates, particularly in nursing aides, and a level of risk to safety as a result.—
Carolyn Rosenblatt,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The aides take patient vital signs, test blood sugar, remove IVs and catheters and help patients use the restroom.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Freep.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Managers worry that apprentices may miss the chance to learn institutional best practices with each project outsourced.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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Ritter says the company starts to see a return on investment in its apprentices by Year 3.—
Andy Tonsing,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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That role is now shared between sheriff’s deputies, since the former full-time SRO is on leave.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Saline County deputies on Wednesday arrested a man in the killing of two women from the Bauxite area who were reported missing in July, a Thursday news release states.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2025
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The line has represented different disabilities and appearances in the past, releasing Barbies and Kens with mobility aids like wheelchairs and braces, dolls with hearing aids, hair loss and vitiligo.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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Companies are synthetically concentrating the psychoactive compound in kratom leaves into various products sold as dietary aids in gas stations and smoke shops, health officials said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Assistants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assistants. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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