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deputies

noun

plural of deputy

as in representatives

a person who acts or does business for another the club president sent a deputy to the conference to vote on our behalf

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a person who helps a more skilled person a deputy supervisor to help out with routine tasks

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Recent Examples of deputies After spending months negotiating a pricey purchase of the private fuel yard that keeps PortMiami ships running, two top deputies to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava were shocked when their boss abruptly rejected the deal. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 28 July 2026 Paul said that Elijah Bieniemy was on scene when deputies arrived Sunday evening. — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026 Bott was hit when someone fired multiple times at the Ford, the driver told deputies. — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 27 July 2026 Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary McFadden ended the department’s partnership with ICE in 2018, but 10 Charlotte-area sheriff’s deputies still work with the federal agency. — Noah Vinsky july 25, Charlotte Observer, 26 July 2026 The leadership of the lower house, composed of 130 deputies, will be elected in the upcoming hours. — ABC News, 26 July 2026 After detaining the suspect, deputies determined he had been released from jail earlier Saturday following arrest on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 26 July 2026 Responding deputies provided lifesaving aid until emergency medical personnel arrived, but one person was pronounced dead at the scene. — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026 These picked up Gaffney as the deputies stood around the bed of the nude man. — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026

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Each of the representatives will receive a $15,000 grant from MLS to support their organization.

— Alex Zietlow July 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 July 2026
Legal representatives for the sheriff’s office declined to comment on the case due to pending litigation.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 25 July 2026

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Should Microsoft be successful in implementing its strategy, that distinction, in that paradigm will prove more important than benchmark comparisons between competing coding assistants.

— Francis Sideco, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Durde has gotten praise from players and his coaching colleagues for his expertise in head coach Mike Macdonald’s system, his collaborative attitude and his teaching and communication skills with players and other assistants.

— Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 21 July 2026

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But by Sunday, the field had largely been cleared after Jackson supporters spent the weekend securing hundreds of delegates who promised to back him at the upcoming state convention.

— Kimberlee Kruesi, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
It was rejected, an outcome rendered moot when Norway failed to qualify, but delegates passed a separate motion requiring the federation’s president to voice their collective criticism at the next FIFA Congress in Qatar.

— Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026

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Those wages greatly exceed both the federal minimum wage and workers’ median wages in most common occupations, among them home health aides, administrative assistants and food service workers.

— Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
The governor’s aides offered an alternative plan to dedicate around $7 billion over several years to healthcare funding in California, which didn’t move Regan.

— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026

Definition of aides

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Authorities arrested Munster and Claude Kwe, a research fellow at Rocky Mountain Labs, June 2 on charges of conspiracy to smuggle mpox into the United States and lying to border agents.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
The first few days after a home is listed often generate the greatest attention, with buyers and agents watching closely for new properties that fit their needs.

— Heartland MLS®, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026

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There, King Charles works with head gardener Gráinne Ring and her team of 15, including apprentices, to cultivate the 15 acres of blooms, hedges, trees and more.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
According to accounts by Wright’s apprentices, after procrastinating on drawing any plans for nine months, Wright designed the house in two hours in September 1935 while the Kaufmanns were driving to his office to review them.

— Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026

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Defense lawyers have since withdrawn their motion to dismiss the case after the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control in April began allowing Maduro and Flores to receive money from Venezuela to pay for their attorneys.

— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 22 July 2026
The brothers, who appeared in federal court in Miami on Monday, have denied all allegations against them and their attorneys have vowed to fight against the extradition request.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 21 July 2026

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Museums can use data to manage traffic by adjusting opening hours and providing navigational aids, but digital tools also enable subtler interventions.

— Mureji Fatunde-Iloeje, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026
Since then the team has been working on the prototypes, using 3D printing to enhance the aids to further restore patients’ sense of smell.

— Hannah Docter-Loeb, Scientific American, 24 July 2026

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