protégés

plural of protégé

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Noun
  • Another urged states to use Title I money to benefit low-achieving students who live within the boundaries of a high-poverty public school but attend private schools.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Teachers, coaches, and parents—once supportive of their students and children choosing to take up the profession of arms—may now hesitate.
    Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The chorus of boos at the final whistle showed what supporters made of it.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Back in the 1920s, even the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin called on his British supporters to affiliate with the Labour Party instead of fighting it.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
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“Protégés.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9s. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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