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
  • Buying Riley out of his deal would mean forking over upwards of $70 million, plus more for his assistants.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Office assistants and teachers were dealing with angry parents, while the volleyball coaching staff tried to prepare for league playoffs while fielding complex questions about federal equality laws from teenagers.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • His order bars Essayli from participating in or supervising their cases, including overseeing the attorneys handling them.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutors had asked Caproni to sentence each brother to life in prison, while their attorneys sought the 15-year minimum.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of attorneys
Noun
  • 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
  • Both candidates and their surrogates immediately declared victory after the debate, which was held at the Mohegan Sun casino and broadcast live on WTNH, Channel 8.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of surrogates
Noun
  • Home ownership doesn’t always mean stability, so consider these factors before deciding whether to rent or buy.
    — Maurie Backman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Those factors are putting homeownership out of reach for many buyers while others delay a purchase and hope for more favorable conditions, perhaps in the spring.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of factors
Noun
  • Further, as Iranian proxies wither and die on the vine, peace will be given an opportunity to establish roots in a region where peace is always in short supply.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Since 2007, Chinese intelligence operatives and their proxies had been stealing data to do with the F-35.
    — Sam Mullins, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of proxies
Noun
  • In December 2024, FBI agents and local police arrested the men during pre-dawn raids on their homes in Miami Beach and their parents’ home in Bal Harbour.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
  • With the sun low in the sky, protesters took to the streets of Woodland on Tuesday to demand action against federal immigration agents.
    — Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of agents
Noun
  • According to union reps, the publisher announced plans to sell the business while staff were in the midst of a union vote.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to reps for the Duchess.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of reps
Noun
  • 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
  • Many adventures later, Portillo sold his business to private equity, his chain of thirty-eight restaurants and two commissaries valued at a cool billion.
    — John Lanchester, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of commissaries
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