as in adviser
a person who gives advice especially professionally
the President's trusted consigliere and chief political strategist
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Recent Examples of consigliere
Employees, including security and personal assistants, and Combs’s premier consigliere—a woman named Kristina Khorram, or K.K., a former chief of staff of Combs Enterprises, whom spectators cast as the Ghislaine to Combs’s Epstein—would facilitate his desires and tidy his messes.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025
Potential future consigliere and lawyer Albert Schner (Rob Reiner) has been meeting with Ebra (Edwin Lee Gibson) all season about how profitable The Beef sandwich window attached to The Bear has been.
—Skyler Trepel, People.com, 29 June 2025
Because Gilroy chose to focus on writing future episodes and rarely came to set, Luna served as his consigliere.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 June 2025
That’s just the way that Jon Rosen, one of Smith’s business consiglieres, likes it.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 May 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025
Potential future consigliere and lawyer Albert Schner (Rob Reiner) has been meeting with Ebra (Edwin Lee Gibson) all season about how profitable The Beef sandwich window attached to The Bear has been.
—Skyler Trepel, People.com, 29 June 2025
Because Gilroy chose to focus on writing future episodes and rarely came to set, Luna served as his consigliere.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 June 2025
That’s just the way that Jon Rosen, one of Smith’s business consiglieres, likes it.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consigliere
Noun
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Guests fill out a lengthy questionnaire before arriving and your agenda advisor is available to make tweaks to your program during your stay.—
Sherrie Nachman,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Some were plagued by bad investments and unscrupulous advisors.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In previous years, a private consultant managed the grant distribution process.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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This works especially well for marketers, designers, video editors, consultants, and salespeople.—
William Arruda,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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He was known to be a confidant of Linda Yaccarino, the former NBCU ad-sales chairman who became CEO of the social-media outlet now known as X before leaving in July.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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Rick Rivas, California vice president for the American Beverage Association, is a close confidant and adviser to his brother, who was first elected speaker in July 2023, the month Moreno joined the office.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Consigliere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consigliere. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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