Thesaurus results for LIEUTENANTS

lieutenants

noun

plural of lieutenant

as in assistants

a person who helps a more skilled person the drug lord has a pair of brutal lieutenants who do most of his dirty work for him

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Recent Examples of lieutenants Beleaguered manager Kurt Suzuki will stay on through the duration of his one-year contract, and all of former GM Perry Minasian’s top lieutenants, each of whom attended the press conference, will stay on. — Sam Blum, New York Times, 27 June 2026 Urman is cast as a central figure in the complaint alongside her lieutenants, Renna and Lieber. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026 UConn men’s hockey coach Mike Cavanaugh lost one of his top lieutenants, Nick Peruzzi, to Wisconsin this week. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026 But the series falls under the purview of one of Friedlander’s top lieutenants, Brett Fetter, Head of Worldbuilding & Genre Series, who didn’t start at Amazon until February. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 2 June 2026 Colorado fired one of Jared Bednar’s longtime lieutenants, Ray Bennett, last May after the power play failed in the Dallas series. — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 27 May 2026 Instead, Paulie’s trusted lieutenants move from person to person, talking with various would-be partners and supplicants, and then go back and whisper in Paulie’s ear. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026 Pol Pot and his senior lieutenants fled, resolving to continue their fight as guerrillas. — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026 Trump and his top lieutenants addressed the crowd by video and in person. — Susan Page, USA Today, 20 May 2026

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Noun

Apple is trying to make Siri more competitive with assistants from OpenAI and Anthropic while keeping more personal information and AI processing on the device.

— MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 14 July 2026
That’s one area developers are working on, Janna said, like the multilingual hologram assistants are at Miami International Airport.

— Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026

Definition of assistants

Noun

The law would be repealed if it is absorbed by a collective bargaining agreement that gives the special education teacher aides equal to or better than a $10,000 pay raise.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026
At the same time, the past few months have seen several top-level meetings between Bonta aides and the team under Paramount legal boss Makan Delrahim and the company’s General Counsel Stephanie Kyoko McKinnon.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 July 2026

Definition of aides

Noun

Reducing the quantity of new trade workers forced to work as apprentices is the simplest answer to the ratio problem.

— Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Guests will hear the shuffle of San Francisco outside the windows, phones ringing, and the lingering voices of apprentices or other clients.

— Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026

Definition of apprentices

Noun

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

Definition of deputies

Noun

However, because his hearing aids connected directly to the ringtone, the two ended up wandering around the house, using the changing volume to narrow down its location instead of listening for the phone itself.

— Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
Apple calls it the world’s first end to end hearing health experience built into consumer earbuds, part of a growing lineup of over the counter hearing aids now reshaping how people access treatment.

— Allison Palmer July 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026

Definition of aids

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The critical brain is still zonked, and along with it, its pesky sidekicks, self-doubt and anxiety.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
Wacky animal sidekicks once felt vibrant in a holistic world of artifice; here, a goggle-eyed rooster just looks diseased.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of sidekicks

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