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scullions

noun

plural of scullion

as in servants

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But their patience dwindles, her son Telemachus (Tom Holland, his eternal boyishness put to great use) is getting easier to goad into a fight, and the blind swineherd Eumaeus (John Leguizamo) is all that’s left of the king’s loyal servants.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
Yet his truest education came from the palace sweepers—the humble monk-servants who raised him.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of servants

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Others threw scarves and other items for attendants to brush against the coffin.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 7 July 2026
Sea of mourners gather for Khamenei Mourners reached out to touch the truck, and some threw scarves and other items for attendants to brush against the coffin, a common practice in Iran seen as a blessing.

— Nasser Karimi, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

Definition of attendants

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The handmaids’ crimson robes evolved into protest iconography around the world because the story captured fears about authoritarianism and gender more viscerally than overt political messaging ever could.

— Marc Adelman, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
Curators pop up in famous artists’ biographies all the time, usually as handmaidens to the creator’s genius, opening a door to a gallery here or supporting a grant application there.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026

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Apple is trying to make Siri more competitive with assistants from OpenAI and Anthropic while keeping more personal information and AI processing on the device.

— MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 14 July 2026
That’s one area developers are working on, Janna said, like the multilingual hologram assistants are at Miami International Airport.

— Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026

Definition of assistants

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Beleaguered manager Kurt Suzuki will stay on through the duration of his one-year contract, and all of former GM Perry Minasian’s top lieutenants, each of whom attended the press conference, will stay on.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 27 June 2026
Urman is cast as a central figure in the complaint alongside her lieutenants, Renna and Lieber.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026

Definition of lieutenants

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Reducing the quantity of new trade workers forced to work as apprentices is the simplest answer to the ratio problem.

— Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Guests will hear the shuffle of San Francisco outside the windows, phones ringing, and the lingering voices of apprentices or other clients.

— Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026

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