protégés

Definition of protégésnext
plural of protégé

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Noun
  • All other students, including those currently in their senior years of high school, are no longer eligible for the program, according to the Colorado Department of Education.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
  • All Stanford students are ambitious, but many of the most enterprising among them drop out.
    Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • After the Justice Department memo, however, the president suggested there was nothing more to say about Epstein and the country, including his own supporters, should simply move on.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The official campaign had focussed its resources on Iowa and New Hampshire, which left a late-primary state like New York with few channels for supporters’ enthusiasm.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
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“Protégés.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9s. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.

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