preparers

noun

plural of preparer
as in guides

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Recent Examples of preparers For millions of individuals and businesses who rely on professional preparers, the answer portends a frightening prospect if the return preparer is dishonest. — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Fake tax preparers and PTIN abuse Another trend in 2026 involves tax preparer credentials. — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preparers
  1. guides
  2. coaches
  3. trainers
  4. gurus
  5. educators
  6. teachers
  7. mistresses
Noun
  • Increasingly, however, these influencers are guides, companions, cultural interpreters, and trusted sources of information in an age of rock-bottom trust in public institutions.
    — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • In the paper, the authors encourage anyone able to observe the impact to give it a try—and point to guides to help amateurs.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 20 July 2026
Definition of guides
Noun
  • In our room, our coaches were unanimous, our athletic directors were unanimous coming out of the spring and into the summer.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026
  • Just as mobile catering trucks don’t call themselves roach coaches, cruise lines never use that term.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 15 July 2026
Definition of coaches
Noun
  • The 23-year-old crumpled to the ground, clutching his left hand before walking off with trainers.
    — Alejandro Avila, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026
  • Beyond players, coaches and ownership/front-office types, teams typically include staffers such as team doctors and trainers, equipment managers and media relations staffers.
    — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of trainers
Noun
  • Typically, at this age, the B and C-listers typically turn into self-help gurus who suddenly start praying to some butterfly goddess while on a retreat in Costa Rica.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
  • When first stepping on the Scarlet Lady, cruisers are met with a rousing, upbeat staff that serve as gurus around the ship and are experts on everything from beauty to juicing.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026
Definition of gurus
Noun
  • Rumors swirled that Nakamura and other trustees maintained a list of those educators.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
  • But by the 1920s, orphanages began to fall out of favor among educators and psychologists.
    — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 16 July 2026
Definition of educators
Noun
  • First-year teachers with a master’s degree range from $60,000 to $62,000 per year, depending on the number of credits.
    — Taylor O'Connor July 15, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
  • That brought pay for most starting teachers in the district to around $44,500.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026
Definition of teachers
Noun
  • The Getty Suite speaks for itself with its throne-like chairs, opulent tapestries, carved rose wooden ceiling and connecting door into the Medici Suite (CH) where Getty put up some of his mistresses.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2026
  • On the other hand, Dunaway and her tart-talking sidekick, Brenda Vaccaro, seem to be having the time of their lives as mistresses of the shades of darkness (their ramshackle abode is a funhouse Ghost Train ride festooned with skeletons, spiders and tattered netting).
    — Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
Definition of mistresses

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