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
Here are etiquette rules that professional minders of Ps and Qs say might be negotiable these days.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for minders
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Onuba counseled now is the time to take another page from PE, which is their operating partner model, where operating partners sit between management and assets, thereby becoming custodians for the post asset-value integration.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
4 Nov. 2025
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Ahuja noted that institutional infrastructure for bitcoin—custodians, liquidity providers, and banks—has matured significantly over the past several years, creating greater stability.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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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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Texas guards contributed as well.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026
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Meet other parents and guardians, through your child’s school or therapy sessions or online in communities for parents of kids with disabilities, who can relate and be supportive.—
Jaclyn Greenberg,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where a book a day keeps the bombs away.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Nov. 2025
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The team’s first four 2025 draft picks look like keepers.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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Orangutans sometimes spend weeks finding the necessary materials (wires, bolts, screws), hiding their elaborate preparations from their keepers, and awaiting the perfect moment to execute their plans.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Since at least last Wednesday, wardens have been searching the Jefferson Hills area for a deer with a jug on its head.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Nov. 2025
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Forest wardens walk into Kyebi Forest Reserve in the East Akim Municipal district in Ghana.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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The murder led to a wave of support for the governor's killer, Mumtaz Qadri, one of Taseer's bodyguards, who was hailed by some as a hero and defender of Islam.—
NPR,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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His bodyguards came back and told him the convoy would not be able to pass.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Minders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minders. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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