ADVISEE Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

advisee

noun

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as in client

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Recent Examples of advisee According to Newton, Summers will remain on leave until the end of the academic year and will not be teaching or taking on new advisees. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026 In 2021 Harvard barred Nowak from accepting new student advisees or serving as principal investigator on new grants or contracts, following an investigation of his program’s funding by Epstein. — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026 Our inference is that what’s going on is that the craft of research is being transferred from the adviser to the advisee. — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026 The advisee may present herself as a supplicant but end up an aggressor, demanding and scornful. — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025 Yes, Grimes is notoriously awful to his students, but Alice figures that’s a price worth paying, and persists in her plan even when Peter Murdoch, Grimes’s other advisee and Alice’s rival, insists on coming along. — The Atlantic, 15 May 2025 Another time, someone else’s graduate advisee kept Lilian in her office for three-quarters of an hour with a monologue, during which Lilian did not say a single word. — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025

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client

Noun

Walsh is known for styling such clients as Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez, Mindy Kaling and Ariana DeBose.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Her defense attorney, Gus Kostopoulos, disputes the allegations and even claimed his client was not involved in the robbery set-up.

— Lauren Victory, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

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