Thesaurus results for RELIEVER

reliever

noun

Definition of reliever

as in assistant

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Recent Examples of reliever Meanwhile, Brewers reliever Aaron Ashby carved through three hitless innings to keep San Diego completely suffocated. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Griffin set a franchise record for a reliever with seven strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Alec Bohm hit a two-out, solo homer off Braves reliever Didier Fuentes in the 10th inning to give the Phillies a 4-3 win Wednesday at Truist Park. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026 No reliever stayed on the active roster for the entire season. — Danielle Allentuck, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for reliever

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Noun

Willow, a one-time teen star now employed as a casting assistant, carries most of the strain.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Pore’s top assistant, Rafael Martinez, delivers the scouting report on their next opponent — in this instance, the University of Tulsa, with a match set for Wednesday night.

— Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of assistant

Noun

Twenty-seven states have passed laws ensuring that defendants in consumer debt cases have the right to an attorney once jail time becomes a possibility, Jones said.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026
Kolodin, an attorney who had lost a GOP primary for the state Senate that summer, was seen as something of a gadfly by some in the state GOP and hardly seen at all by others.

— Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of attorney

Noun

Many of the surrogates have claimed they were misled during the process and weren't aware of the other women carrying babies for the same couple.

— Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Spin zone Georgia’s top candidates usually leave the spin room sales pitch to their surrogates.

— Adam Beam, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of surrogate

Noun

Whereas collectability, value and investability of sports cards can rise and fall on the real-world performance of athletes, both trading-card genres share common factors.

— Bob Woods, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026
Even your language preference, country setting, and device type factor in, though TikTok says those carry less weight.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of factor

Noun

Israel, feeling more exposed, might become more inclined to strike preventively, and without the United States involved, Iran and its regional proxies might be more tempted to strike back.

— Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026
The disagreement reflected a widening divide between Jerusalem and Washington over Israel's military campaign against Iran's regional proxies, as the Biden administration sought to prevent the fighting from escalating into a broader regional war.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of proxy

Noun

Thurman said Life Time has a contract with Freeman Health System for emergency medical services and is set to pay overtime for McDonald County Sheriff's Office deputies working to keep the race safe.

— Glory Reitz, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
One deputy was caught directly under branches and the tree's trunk, but was spared in part by the SUV obstructing the fall.

— Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of deputy

Noun

The coupling of violence with law and order is ever present in the agent’s recollections, but tonally, the show feels light.

— Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
Its membership spans producers, executive producers, distributors, sales agents, technical and post-production firms and dubbing houses.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

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