juniors

noun

plural of junior
as in subordinates
one who is of lower rank and typically under the authority of another she's his junior in the company

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Recent Examples of juniors The routine output juniors used to produce is what clears the gate, so what is left is checking, correcting and escalating what an agent produced. — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Cazmierczak had 30 assists against Orangewood — feeding sophomore Emerson Lalashuis (12 kills) and juniors Leni Young (10 kills) and Eden Knapp (eight kills). — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2026 The players were paired with juniors of The First Tee program from chapters across the country. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026 Buford has 12 seniors or juniors rated 3-star recruits or higher. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 17 Sep. 2026 Designed for juniors and seniors, the program will have a particular emphasis on high-achieving community college transfer students. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Olivia followed in his footsteps playing juniors and high school tennis at Portledge School on Long Island. — Lukas Weese, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Students entered the program as juniors, spending Wednesday evenings through the academic year inside Condé Nast offices while balancing classes, sports, and other extracurriculars. — Regan Toriello, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2026 To qualify to be a semifinalist, students must score in the top 1% of test-takers in the state on the PSAT, which this year’s cohort took in fall 2025 as high school juniors. — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for juniors
  1. subordinates
  2. minions
  3. underlings
  4. henchmen
  5. assistants
  6. inferiors
Noun
  • No matter how powerful, dictators have always needed subordinates—censors, propagandists, security guards, police officers, intelligence analysts, and local bureaucrats—to carry out their orders.
    — Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Investigators have accused one of his subordinates of running a fraud scheme, though Kravchenko himself has not been charged or named a suspect.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of subordinates
Noun
  • There are references to demons, being burned alive, and the duende king explicitly commands his minions to kill Jo and Raissa.
    — Parents, Parents, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Musashi becomes part of a crew that fights the Genma and Yoshitsune’s minions.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of minions
Noun
  • Ellison is said to be a boss who is loyal to his underlings, particularly with his own hires.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Later, Bianco directed his underlings to begin counting those ballots by hand — a potential felony under state law, which forbids anyone other than election officials from so much as touching a ballot container.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of underlings
Noun
  • One of the villain’s henchmen was a small, shaggy blue creature with a long drooping snout and a sour expression that lived in a cigar box.
    — Niranjana Rajalakshmi, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Bird himself provides the voices for Xavier’s alien henchmen, Gunsol and Musker.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of henchmen
Noun
  • Along with Muse, other AI assistants will compete, such as Google's Gemini Spark.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The Royals currently have assistants Marcus Thames and Connor Dawson on Matt Quatraro’s staff.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • That comes to the Philippines in the form of war, as well as through the invocation, or establishment, of American-style modes of government and education that place Filipinos along this racial hierarchy, identifying them as these inferiors that need to be taught how to govern themselves.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Definition of inferiors

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