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 From what my lieutenants tell me, it’s being well-received, the numbers are good. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026 Back at the tail end of the 1960s, founder Bruce McLaren and his lieutenants conceived and built the M6GT in just 11 weeks. — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 13 July 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lieutenants
  1. assistants
  2. aides
  3. apprentices
  4. deputies
  5. aids
  6. sidekicks
Noun
  • 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
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Definition of apprentices
Noun
  • 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
Definition of deputies
Noun
  • 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
Definition of aids
Noun
  • 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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