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or counsellor
1
as in consultant
a person who gives advice especially professionally
a young couple going to a marriage counselor
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2
as in lawyer
a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations
get the best counselor that money can buy, especially if you're guilty
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Recent Examples of counselor
Dempsey was sent to live with a distant city counselor and grew up to work in data entry, confined to her apartment computer.
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Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 May 2025
Two-thirds of voters did not support counselors promoting being transgender as an option to children, and an overwhelming 68% of voters did not support teachers being able to hide a child’s gender identity from parents.
—Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 15 May 2025
The couple enlist the help of their friends, Eliza and Willa, to join them as camp counselors at a summer camp featuring the opposing groups.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 9 May 2025
There are other solutions for debt, including a debt management plan through a credit counselor, debt settlement or a consolidation loan.
—Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
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Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 May 2025
Two-thirds of voters did not support counselors promoting being transgender as an option to children, and an overwhelming 68% of voters did not support teachers being able to hide a child’s gender identity from parents.
—Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 15 May 2025
The couple enlist the help of their friends, Eliza and Willa, to join them as camp counselors at a summer camp featuring the opposing groups.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 9 May 2025
There are other solutions for debt, including a debt management plan through a credit counselor, debt settlement or a consolidation loan.
—Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counselor
Noun
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Legal Fees and Costs Add Up As negotiations stretch out, the financial cost of legal fees, consultants, and other resources involved in drafting and reviewing agreements increases.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The Bottom Line on Cloud Coffee For most people, there probably isn’t much upside or downside to trying cloud coffee, says Connie Diekman, RD, a food and nutrition consultant and past president of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
16 May 2025
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Hope all lawyers at Paul Weiss of conviction join them.—
Sonam Sheth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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Rajkumar, currently a State Assembly member representing Queens, was one of three lawyers who filed the original Manhattan Supreme Court complaint on behalf of the tenants on April 1, 2014.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
23 May 2025
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Offline, good advisers often employ the tactic of laying out a narrative around a problem before launching into their recommendation — a framework reflected on TikTok, where creators tend to blend advice with a personal story.—
Eliza Brooke,
Vox,
23 May 2025
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Jonathan Powell, Britain’s national-security adviser, who helped to broker the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, took a leading role in the negotiations, and there were subsequent meetings between the two sides in March and in April.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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The review aims to ensure that U.S. attorneys in 94 offices nationwide share equal responsibility with headquarters officials in choosing whether to pursue public corruption cases, according to a department official speaking on background.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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In response, the NCAA and athletes’ attorneys softened roster limits by adding a grandfathering provision that allows colleges to keep current players and recruits on a roster who would otherwise have been cut due to roster limits.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
19 May 2025
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Rubio should continue to work the phones and counsel military restraint with both parties.—
Lisa Curtis,
Foreign Affairs,
13 May 2025
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Legal counsel should be involved early to flag any structural or jurisdictional concerns.—
Paul Davis,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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Immigrant advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union challenged these deportations, arguing that the Trump administration has offered little evidence that the Venezuelans are gang members, and that the men have a right to contest those allegations in court.—
Joel Rose,
NPR,
16 May 2025
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Biking advocates say that the draconian crackdown was done without any public notice and that pedal bike riders are being swept up in this unprecedented dragnet.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2025
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Only 20 experts out of the roughly 525 who did the work at USAID's Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance and its Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Relief are being hired by PRM, the source said.—
Jonathan Landay,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Food security experts say tens of thousands of cases are expected in the coming year.—
Mohammed Jahjouh,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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“Counselor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counselor. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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