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Recent Examples of mentored
Stanley Fischer, who helped lead central banks in Israel and the US and mentored a younger generation of economic decision-makers, died on May 31 at 81.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
Pavia has been mentored quite a bit by former superstar college quarterback Johnny Manziel, who was an absolute bust in the NFL.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
Now’s complete tribute to Snider, including Cook, Mead, and another artist Snider mentored, Aaron Lee Tasjan, below.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2025
Drawn to filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Terrence Malick (who mentored Joseph early in his career), the very concept of a traditional narrative script was part of the problem.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2025
He’s constantly being mentored by [Malik Allen, Udonis Haslem] and Bam.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
Many more people—over half the country—have a positive view of Hugo Chávez, the populist former president who mentored Maduro and, before dying in 2013, named Maduro as his successor.
—Francisco Rodríguez, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2025
He was also mentored by All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh through the BFI Flare x BAFTA Cohort scheme.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
The younger actor plays a hot, rising country act who was mentored by Bridges’s Bad Blake and still thinks the world of him, despite a falling out.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
Pavia has been mentored quite a bit by former superstar college quarterback Johnny Manziel, who was an absolute bust in the NFL.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
Now’s complete tribute to Snider, including Cook, Mead, and another artist Snider mentored, Aaron Lee Tasjan, below.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2025
Drawn to filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Terrence Malick (who mentored Joseph early in his career), the very concept of a traditional narrative script was part of the problem.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2025
He’s constantly being mentored by [Malik Allen, Udonis Haslem] and Bam.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
Many more people—over half the country—have a positive view of Hugo Chávez, the populist former president who mentored Maduro and, before dying in 2013, named Maduro as his successor.
—Francisco Rodríguez, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2025
He was also mentored by All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh through the BFI Flare x BAFTA Cohort scheme.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
The younger actor plays a hot, rising country act who was mentored by Bridges’s Bad Blake and still thinks the world of him, despite a falling out.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mentored
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Paul was a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion and guided the league through the challenges of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Boating safaris and guided bush walks are also very popular here—look out for elephants, wild dogs, and lions.—
Elizabeth Gordon,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
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Sure, the Hurricanes beat the world when Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson coached there, but that was almost two generations ago.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Jan. 2026
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Growing up with a father who coached high school basketball, the sport was always part of family life.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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The class begins with incarcerated people being taught general knowledge of the industry.—
Sydney Sasser,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Aug. 2025
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Tyx has lived in the Kansas City area for four years and previously taught middle school Spanish.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
5 Aug. 2025
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Vedam earned several degrees behind bars, tutored hundreds of fellow inmates and went nearly half a century with just a single infraction, involving rice brought in from the outside.—
Maryclaire Dale,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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From being tutored by Tallas to now working with him to develop the Panthers’ goaltenders of the future, Luongo has a great reference point to Tallas’ strengths as a coach.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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Rheinmetall revealed that the technology will reduce the production costs of green hydrogen through lower investment in the overall system, accompanied by a doubling of power density or an improvement in efficiency of over 10%.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Jan. 2026
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Each president's portrait is accompanied by a placard describing events during their time in office, including Clinton's impeachment.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Mentored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mentored. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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