as in guardian
a person or group that watches over someone or something
those self-appointed minders of other people's morals
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Recent Examples of minder
The double-cross at Piccadilly Circus is inevitable, but the episode plays the sequence elegantly, intercutting Tara’s effort to give her minders the slip with the Park’s feckless attempt to manage a breach in the MI5 database.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Mielants keeps his movie’s volume at 11, robbing these kids (and their minders) of any quieter nuance that might humanize them.
—Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
The hybrids’ minder, Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant), is an old-school synthetic who urges his charges to embrace their novelty.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
Indeed, Uber has experimented there with such cars, although each still comes with a human minder behind the wheel, who takes over in case the software fails.
—Rodney Brooks, IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2017
Scott Tobias, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Mielants keeps his movie’s volume at 11, robbing these kids (and their minders) of any quieter nuance that might humanize them.
—Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
The hybrids’ minder, Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant), is an old-school synthetic who urges his charges to embrace their novelty.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
Indeed, Uber has experimented there with such cars, although each still comes with a human minder behind the wheel, who takes over in case the software fails.
—Rodney Brooks, IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for minder
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Before her death, Goodall wrote an open letter — shared with PEOPLE by Animals Asia — about her decision to become Robinson's guardian.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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Donors should be in good health with no cold, flu, or COVID-19 symptoms, and must be at least 17 years old, or 16 with a parent or guardian’s consent.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
4 Jan. 2026
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Overpayments and underpayments occur when changes to employees’ salaries or benefits occur after the payroll cutoff date, said Bismarck Obando, a spokesperson for the controller’s office, which is the custodian of the state’s payroll records.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Taking Back the Control For a long time, the simplest way for a business to hold digital assets was to trust a third-party custodian.—
K.H. Koehler,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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Sports Equipment While the dishwasher isn't ideal for cleaning baseball caps, uniforms, or equipment heavily-coated with mud, a trip through a dishwasher cycle is ideal to remove bacteria and odors from mouth guards and hard plastic shin guards.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Hurricanes were without guard Gal Raviv, who is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026
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Photos, Videos, Journals, and Scrapbooks While old photos, journals, handwritten notes, and other personal archives may not mean much to you at the time, check with family members to see if anyone wants to be the keeper of memories.—
Ashley Poskin,
Martha Stewart,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Marquette kid Kolek — more and more of a keeper, a wonderful old expression used by an old Marquette coach named Al McGuire — had five assists in 14 minutes.—
Mike Lupica,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The newest season showed Renner's character Mike McLusky confronting a gang war and contending with a headstrong new warden, played by Falco.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, Nina Hobbs (Edie Falco), the season's new warden, is collapsing under the weight of her debt to the Colombians, who've forced her into doing their dirty work.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025
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Steve Wilkos, the former bodyguard on The Jerry Springer Show who’s now a talk show host himself, will also appear.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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Alu was a bodyguard for his wife, Kim Rothstein.—
Sofia Saric,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Minder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minder. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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