Thesaurus results for RELIEVER

reliever

noun

Definition of reliever

as in assistant

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Recent Examples of reliever Baltimore reliever Ryan Helsley did not opt out of his $14 million salary next season, part of a $28 million, two-year contract. — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026 Right-handed reliever Will Klein underwent a procedure to remove bone chips from his right elbow last week, and the Dodgers said he was expected to be ready in time for spring training. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 Aaron Ashby, a very good reliever, had become the best reliever in postseason history. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026 In other injury news, Minnesota said reliever Jeff Hoffman will be shut down for eight weeks after undergoing successful arthroscopic surgery Tuesday. — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for reliever

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Noun

In Facebook groups for Astro owners, users have complained of diminished customer service and griped that Amazon's AIexa+ AI assistant isn't supported on Astro.

— Annie Palmer, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2026
Newsweek’s reporters and editors used Martyn, our AI assistant, to produce this story.

— Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of assistant

Noun

Segura's first goal of the season came with assists from defender Ryan Porteous — the second of his career — and Leo Walta — his first in his fifth league appearance.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Bears kicker Yousef Obeid had four field goals in the game, including a 37-yarder that tied it at 20 with 32 seconds left.

— The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of second

Noun

Chambers himself is now accused of riot, conspiracy to riot, and money laundering offenses, defense attorney Aitor Martínez Jiménez told the Washington Examiner.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2026
The attorney noted that immediately after the midterm elections last week, lawmakers such as Garcia accompanied their warnings of upcoming investigations with Instagram posts that received media attention and thousands of reshares.

— Pranshu Verma The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of attorney

Noun

Candidates spent the weekend crisscrossing their states and pulling in surrogates to make a final push for voters still on the fence.

— Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Paxton and a number of his campaign surrogates warned that the Democrat would help usher Sharia law into Texas.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of surrogate

Noun

However, the researchers propose that nuclear reaction rates and the neutron’s decay rate slow by the same factor, preserving their relationship with the expansion rate.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
Angela Gonzales-Torres, a fellow Democrat who started her campaign to unseat Gomez long before the ethics inquiry, said the controversy surrounding the congressman became an important factor for voters in the closing stretch.

— Anna Liss-Roy, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of factor

Noun

Iran has long backed the Houthis as a powerful proxy force, particularly as a counter to Iran's arch-foe Saudi Arabia, which shares a long border with Yemen.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
And yet, to a large degree, Mendoza and Ciscomani are mere stand-ins, their candidacies serving as little more than proxies for the president and his opposition.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of proxy

Noun

The sheriff's office said a Monroe County deputy took over the pursuit when the Chevrolet exited I-75 in Erie Township, Michigan.

— CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies and Sacramento Regional Transit police officers also responded to investigate the incident.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of deputy

Noun

In a world where chatbots and agents easily answer most generic questions for free, the value of news organizations seeking payment from readers could be to provide a perspective that audiences know has been verified by a human being.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
The reports came two days after federal immigration agents conducted an operation in nearby Davis.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2026

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