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relievers

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plural of reliever

as in assistants

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Other jobs on this list include occupations that are largely administrative and deal with handling data or customer service, such as office clerks, secretaries, administrative assistants, customer service reps and tellers.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Hammock and Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald had worked together as assistants with the Baltimore Ravens.

— Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

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Defense attorneys challenged the reliability of DNA tests and unsuccessfully fought against the public release of the Twiggs interview, warning prosecutors would characterize it as a confession.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
Defense attorneys contend that because only a single bullet was fired — and struck its target — the crowd was not at risk.

— Bill Chappell, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026

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But several left-wing Democrats, especially El-Sayed, have campaigned with Piker and elevated him into one of their most prominent surrogates.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
In Texas, lawmakers have been exploring a ban on foreign nationals using Texas surrogates – a move surrogacy experts worry could be the first step toward a statewide ban on the practice.

— Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

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Some lenders use standard factors by industry; others will accept a letter from a CPA attesting to the business’s actual expense ratio, which can meaningfully improve the income calculation for a lean operation.

— Karen Koehler, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
Other complicating factors can include things like child custody, income, housing and other circumstances that can make domestic survivors feel stuck.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026

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Counterterrorism police had looked into the possible involvement of Iranian proxies in the Jewish ambulance arson, as well as other attacks on Jewish sites in London.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, QTRouter used commercial proxies and virtual private servers to mask that hackers based in China were accessing the infected IoT devices.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

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Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities’ commissaries for items including tampons, coffee and soup.

— Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
In 2025, the Pentagon explored privatizing commissaries, soliciting interest from commercial retailers and investment firms to take over operations at 178 domestic locations.

— Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026

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