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noun

plural of partner
as in spouses
the person to whom another is married takes marriage very seriously and wants a man who will be her partner for life

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verb

present tense third-person singular of partner
as in jobs

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Recent Examples of partners
Noun
Nvidia's current-generation Rubin systems are in full production and begin shipping this fall to eight cloud partners, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 6 July 2026 Muon and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection are both FireSat partners. — Eric Niiler, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 Betting/odds, ticketing and streaming links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic. — Data Skrive, New York Times, 5 July 2026 And now Jacopo—who is on the business rather than creative side—is one of five partners steering the architectural studio into the next era, with global hotel, retail and residential projects from Sicily to Shanghai. — Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026 Be patient with kids and romantic partners, because squabbles might arise. — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 26 June 2026 Its story resonated deeply with Catherine Blanc-Maurizi, producer at Offshore, who brought the project to the aforementioned partners and also got co-directors Maud Garnier and Marc Robinet on board. — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 25 June 2026 In the spring of 2026, the company hosted its inaugural AI Symposium to deepen connections and foster insight-sharing between the scientific AI community, leading AI labs, startups, and its own technology, science, and AI leaders and partners. — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026 Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz are co-founders and partners of the venture capital firm that bears their initials. — Eric Lau, Washington Post, 25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for partners
  1. spouses
  2. recruits
  3. husbands
  4. contracts
  5. hires
  6. fees
  7. subcontracts
  8. employs
Noun
  • These are owned by two or more people (typically spouses), who can both access and manage the account.
    — Elizabeth Gravier,Dan Avery, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • For spouses Jennifer Kraus and Abigail Cruz, the plants smelled like rotten garbage.
    — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of spouses
Verb
  • Both seats are among the National Republican Congressional Committee’s best flip opportunities in the country, and Flores and Tijerina are considered two of the strongest Republican recruits this cycle.
    — James A. Downs, The Washington Examiner, 13 July 2026
  • Short-form social content that recruits new audiences and reactivates the ones who drifted away.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of recruits
Noun
  • Rose Chaus, the social head of Kansas City’s welfare department, blamed the heat for a scourge of bad behavior by husbands.
    — Dan Kelly July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
  • Kennus said his advice for spouses, especially husbands who are in a similar situation, is that communication is very important during the good and bad days and their issues need to take a backseat to their wife’s condition.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2026
Definition of husbands
Verb
  • The federal regulator argued that the sports event contracts the markets offer are more similar to grain futures than to sports wagers, giving it exclusive jurisdiction.
    — Maggie Dougherty, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • Cassidy has been looking into the 340B program for years, including an investigation into the company that contracts with the government to be the program’s vendor and a hearing in October.
    — John Wilkerson, STAT, 25 June 2026
Definition of contracts
Verb
  • Regardless of what Mozeliak does over the next six months, and regardless of whom the team hires in his place or under him, there is really only one change – at the very top of the organization – that could make a lasting difference.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Christoph Waltz voices Max, the film director who hires the Minions to act in his films during the 1920s.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 July 2026
Definition of hires
Verb
  • Devs can also cover users’ transaction fees thanks to gas sponsorship via Privy, simplifying onboarding and reducing friction for new users.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The reforms reduced incentives for policyholders, contractors and attorneys to sue insurers with little risk of having to pay insurers’ attorneys fees whether or not the suits were successful.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2025
Definition of fees
Verb
  • Schultz said that Legal Aid subcontracts some of the legal work in the program to groups such as Bet Tzedek and Inner City Law Center.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The company subcontracts installation to local contractors, leading to varied customer experiences.
    — Dan Simms, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of subcontracts
Verb
  • The company employs some 450 engineers, most of whom are steeped in the shipping industry—domain knowledge that Bozeman says has enabled the company to build better models than any third-party vendor could ever supply at a fraction of the cost.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 July 2026
  • The base employs 4,553 people, including 2,175 active duty military personnel.
    — Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026
Definition of employs

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