Thesaurus results for RELIEVER

reliever

noun

Definition of reliever

as in assistant

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Recent Examples of reliever The Royals led 3-0 with two outs and no one on base in the ninth inning Thursday at Target Field when Minnesota loaded the bases against reliever Lucas Erceg. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026 Marlins reliever Michael Petersen (1-3) retired the first two batters in the eighth before Bo Bichette doubled and went to third on Carson Benge’s single. — Miami Herald, 31 July 2026 Christian Walker greeted reliever Bryan Hudson with a three-run double, cutting the Sox lead to 5-4. — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026 Lefty-swinging Shohei Ohtani lifted a go-ahead sacrifice fly against lefty reliever Brooks Raley in the top of the seventh, giving the Dodgers a 2-1 lead. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for reliever

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Noun

At Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, assistant music professor Benjamin Guerrero is co-teaching a class next year with a computer scientist.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Gainesville quickly lured Grayson’s coach, Santavious Bryant, a former Gainesville assistant, as Niblett’s replacement.

— Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of assistant

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Engineered to protect hair from extreme heat, the Supersonic™ Travel uses intelligent heat control to measure temperature 100 times per second for healthier-looking, softer-feeling hair.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Alcántara gave the Cubs a 4-3 lead with his first career home run in the second, a two-out shot to left-center after Dansby Swanson walked.

— Jay Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026

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The governor now picks one of three finalists named by a nominating commission controlled by attorneys.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
The county attorney presented a plan to sue several big pharma companies for the deceptive marketing practices that triggered the opioid epidemic, following the pattern established by lawsuits filed against tobacco companies starting in the 1990s.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

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Then in April, Port gave an update on her surrogacy journey during a solo episode of her podcast, With Whit, revealing that her surrogate is preparing for another transfer.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
These new surrogates are essential as plastic, metal, or ballistic gel are not great at simulating living tissue when exposed to things like radiation.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026

Definition of surrogate

Noun

Also on Wednesday, Saudi Arabia struck Iranian proxies in Iraq, after months of resisting being pulled into the conflict.

— Salma Arafa, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
This was often seen as a proxy for player skill, as more advanced players could better handle the cognitive rush of commanding dozens of units across multiple fronts, presumably leading to more effective play, eventually overwhelming the opponent.

— Nnamdi Iregbulem, Fortune, 29 July 2026

Definition of proxy

Noun

Experts like Chen Gang, the deputy director and senior research fellow at NUS East Asian Institute, are positive that this momentum will lead to long-term gains for Chinese chipmakers.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Because of Micron’s corporate structure, the company needed to take the exemption two times, requiring it to pay on a maximum of $800 million in assessed value, according to Brad Smith, chief deputy at the Ada County Assessor’s Office.

— Mark Dee August 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of deputy

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Hiring has cooled for entry-level software developers — work increasingly done by AI agents — and college enrollment in computer and information science programs has been declining.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Smaller teams of high-agency engineers and builders are managing fleets of agents rather than executing every task by hand.

— Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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