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relievers

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plural of reliever

as in assistants

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Along with Muse, other AI assistants will compete, such as Google's Gemini Spark.

— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
The Royals currently have assistants Marcus Thames and Connor Dawson on Matt Quatraro’s staff.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of assistants

Noun

What if third parties—egg donors or surrogates, for example—are involved?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
When clients or surrogates travel to California for important medical milestones, Tang and Sonnenberg are often there themselves—arranging schedules, accompanying appointments, and ensuring that days defined by medicine retain a sense of humanity.

— Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of surrogates

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The cascading fallout from COVID and our modern-day decline in formal religiosity are possibly two other factors.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
The bill also gives some legal protection for school districts against financial penalties if their arts funding decreases as a result of factors beyond their control, such as the expiration of a grant.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of factors

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Iran’s proxies have proven useful in adding pressure on Washington’s allies in the region.

— Sarah Tamimi, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
Hammer’s insistence that his show uses its guests as educational proxies to teach its viewers what not to do, and how not to live, feels far more suspect than Springer’s goofy raison d’être, and way less fun.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of proxies

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Cseh, the archive's director, said successor governments to dictatorships rarely disclose the names of previous agents and informants, let alone records as detailed as those Hungary is preparing to release.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
Others called for a transparent investigation into the Police Department’s relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

— Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of agents

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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
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

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