relievers

noun

plural of reliever
as in assistants

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relievers
  1. assistants
  2. attorneys
  3. surrogates
  4. factors
  5. proxies
  6. agents
  7. reps
  8. commissaries
Noun
  • And with pitching coach Matt Blake on a new three-year deal, his assistants, Preston Claiborne and Desi Druschel, will return, too.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Those include testimony from former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Epstein’s former lawyer and accountant, and two of his former assistants.
    — Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • In a court filing last month, Pike's attorneys said her veins may have ruptured before she was injected with pentobarbital.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Attendees connected Tuesday with more than 30 resources available, including healthcare, disability claim assistance and on-site processing, attorneys, employment and education opportunities, free wigs and financial resources.
    — Elena Tittel, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of attorneys
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 surrogates
Noun
  • Drugs or alcohol did not appear to be factors in the collision, Harper said.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • During an informational webinar IFG hosted in February, Aydin, the embryologist, was upfront that many factors can cause fertility issues in older women, and that a mitochondrial donation might not solve them.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of factors
Noun
  • Those concessions may not assuage all the concerns that Americans have about data centers — which are, after all, arguably proxies for other fears about the madcap proliferation of AI.
    — Sara Herschander, Vox, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Google found most of the boxes were running residential proxies for routing large volumes of nefarious traffic or modules that engaged in ad fraud schemes.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of proxies
Noun
  • The call came as the district pressed for better coordination after ICE agents in late October were spotted near Ethel Phillips Elementary, causing concern among students and families during after school pickup.
    — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Vargas and the other California Representatives who wrote to DHS said that video footage from the incident appeared to show the 8-yeard-old being restrained by federal agents.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of agents
Noun
  • The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to his reps for comment.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The real question is if Schobel deserves to play more because of the performance of Craig or is this more about getting Schobel valuable reps for next season?
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of reps
Noun
  • In late August, at least six commissaries, or on-base stores where military personnel buy food, suddenly experienced refrigeration malfunctions, according to the outlet.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The ​attacks resemble disruptions reported at about a ⁠dozen US military commissaries in late August that led to food losses after fridges were affected.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of commissaries
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