Thesaurus results for MINDERS

minders

noun

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plural of minder

as in custodians

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 minders Word has it that as the team was passing through border security--on the way back to Iran--each woman was taken aside to speak to Australian officials and interpreters without minders listening in. —

Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026 Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the chance for the players to consider asylum came down to last-minute discussions at Sydney Airport where the women were separated from their minders and had time to call their families. —

Bryan Llenas , Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026 Burke said most members of the Iranian delegation had the opportunity for a private meeting with officials – facilitated by a heavy police presence to separate them from Iranian minders. —

Christina MacFarlane, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026 The Guardian reported that a number of players had escaped their government minders after their match and were in police protective custody. —

Yarden Segev, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026 Here are etiquette rules that professional minders of Ps and Qs say might be negotiable these days. —

Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2025 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. —

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

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The union, which represents animal care specialists, patrol officers, custodians, groundskeepers, patrol officers, aides and seasonal workers, said the zoo's last contract offer would have taken away their health care plan without providing a comparable alternative.

— Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 6 May 2026
The midcentury abode was transferred to custodians of the McCann Trust that holds the property in 2022 and, after hitting the market April 10 for nearly $3 million, a contingent offer for its sale has already been accepted.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2026