as in additional
available to supply something extra when needed
the auditorium has an auxiliary cooling system used only on particularly sweltering days
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as in subordinate
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as in cutter
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Recent Examples of auxiliary
Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Local chapters known as auxiliaries played a key part in spreading the AFMRS’s message.
—Jenna Deep, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Additionally, 22 percent of the key wet finishing facilities’ auxiliary chemicals used for LS&Co.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Chrissy Davis is the co-president of the auxiliary of Infant Welfare Family Health and is on the board of directors of Infant Welfare Society of Chicago.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Local chapters known as auxiliaries played a key part in spreading the AFMRS’s message.
—Jenna Deep, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
The sudden contractions between main channels and auxiliary pathways create local velocity increases and swirling patterns that actively pull water out of the gas diffusion layer while simultaneously drawing fresh oxygen toward the catalyst sites, acting like miniature vacuum pumps.
—Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Additionally, 22 percent of the key wet finishing facilities’ auxiliary chemicals used for LS&Co.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auxiliary
Adjective
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Amazon is preparing to cut as much as 15% of its human resources staff, with additional layoffs likely in other divisions, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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For example, the Season 33 finale extended to three hours to accommodate additional routines and celebrations.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Put simply, the theory says the president should be able to issue orders to subordinates and to fire them at will.—
Graham G. Dodds,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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The third-term sheriff is accused of repeatedly harassing his female subordinates and threatening his chief deputy to keep it quiet.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Instead, Priester left a cutter over the heart of the plate and Crow-Armstrong pulled it on a line to right.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Behind your curious browsing is one bobbed and bleary-eyed writer searching for the best October Prime Day deals with a ferocity known only to coupon-cutters.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The city’s aggressive incentive for backyard apartments — formally called accessory dwelling units — played a key role in the city’s total last year.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Per the listing, there’s also a large, fully functional gym or potential accessory dwelling unit, plus plenty of room on the grounds for a future play area or a sports court.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Linda hustles the two of them to a nearby motel whose only employees are a surly young goth attendant (a glowering Ivy Wolk) and a sympathetic, mildly flirty super (A$AP Rocky, laidback and breezy).—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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There, she is repeatedly scolded, first by a testy parking attendant (Mark Stolzenberg), and then by a doctor (Bronstein), who warns Linda of consequences if her daughter doesn’t soon reach her target weight of fifty pounds.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Being stranded at sea on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger doesn’t necessarily sit at the top of most people’s list.—
Rick Mauch,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Sep. 2025
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For a good part of the show, the action takes place with the four leads onstage confined to a lifeboat.—
Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The district would also need to create supplementary resources to help teachers incorporate AI into the classroom.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Sep. 2025
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Third, the letter writer and her family might want to consider engaging a geriatric care manager who could help them to identify supplementary services and connections in the local community that could go at least some way to alleviating her isolation.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the trailer, Bettany walks up to a white mansion and is greeted by human servants who are really just recreated AI programs.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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The servants of this democratic republic’s machinery are, in truth, nothing but members of a mafia set up to plunder the island’s riches—and the West is complicit, with its own interests in the riches underground, in the ocean, from the soil.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Auxiliary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auxiliary. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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