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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 As the vehicle came to a stop, a passenger jumped out and ran, prompting deputies to establish a perimeter, according to the sheriff’s department. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026 These picked up Gaffney as the deputies stood around the bed of the nude man. — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026 In August 2021, Rodriguez began working for Saavedra, whose company provided private security services for clients and often employed active deputies and other law enforcement officers. — City News Service, Daily News, 20 July 2026 The main attraction here is the Old Lincoln County Courthouse, where Kid made his last daring escape from jail and killed two deputies in the process. — Allison Savage Bates, Denver Post, 19 July 2026 One of Dhillon’s early top deputies, former Huntington Beach City Atty. — Ben Wieder, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026 The company told deputies that someone at the Sheriff's Office or a Flock employee could have reactivated the feature, or that a system bug could have automatically activated it. — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 14 July 2026 The deputies yell at Stingley, in prone position, to stop resisting and at various times, one deputy kneels over Stingley, straddling his back and pressing his knee down on Stingley’s buttocks. — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026

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Along with attending matches, Infantino’s itinerary included stops in New York for an interview on Fox & Friends and in Miami for a FIFA summit attended by representatives from the organization’s 211 member associations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
Hopkinson and chief financial officer Simon Capper visited Nyon, Switzerland, on multiple occasions, while the CEO also spoke to governing-body representatives in Budapest before the Champions League final in May.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 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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Ten years after some Bernie Sanders delegates marched out of the Democratic National Convention, the party is still cautious about using its resources to beat the left.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
The Maine Democratic Party will hold a convention on July 25, where 601 delegates will choose that nominee.

— Tamara Keith, NPR, 14 July 2026

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The office was staffed with longtime Machado aides, who had left families behind in Venezuela.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Democrats and Republican leaders both surveyed members last week on the college sports plan, which indicated an uncertain whip count on the floor and work still to do on amending the plan, according to senators and aides.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 20 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

Definition of agents

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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
According to Petrucci, 92% of construction apprentices in California are trained by a union.

— Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 13 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

Definition of attorneys

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Internal medicine physician Manjaree Daw, MD, told Cleveland Clinic that lemon balm can be a gentler option than prescription sleep aids.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 17, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
Leaning into ecology serves world-building, while trending toward biomechanics aids immediate believability.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 July 2026

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