Thesaurus results for ASSISTANTS

assistants

noun

plural of assistant

as in aides

a person who helps a more skilled person the chief assistant to the director

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Recent Examples of assistants For now, its Muse assistants are actively helping people complete tasks on their computers quicker, such as responding to emails, booking flights, and surfing the web on their behalf. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 JPMorgan won't allow outside AI agents to operate inside the bank, Dimon said Tuesday, citing risks to the company and its customers as tech firms including Meta and OpenAI release autonomous assistants. — Hugh Son,laya Neelakandan,leslie Picker,ritika Shah, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 The first wave largely consisted of chatbots and virtual assistants, followed by personalized recommendations and interactions. — Ozan Ozerk, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The duo met while working as assistants at Apatow Productions. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 Brodovitch left the magazine in 1958; two successors had already come and gone, and the new art directors, Ruth Ansel and Bea Feitler, were young assistants who’d been promoted. — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026 This includes — but is not limited to — professors, scholars, research assistants, students, teachers, au pairs and camp counselors. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Unlike ordinary reporting tools, this platform also tracks actual financial results by providing revenue attribution at the SKU level to show which products consumers discover and purchase through the use of AI assistants. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026 That makes Ajax more of an ongoing experiment than a finished competitor to commercial AI assistants for now. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026

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Noun

When Weiss and her aides shift coverage closer to Israel’s point of view, their actions promptly leak to outlets like the Guardian and Status, the daily media newsletter that has relentlessly chronicled Weiss’ real and perceived missteps.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
His aides began to consider the possibility that his was going to be a crippled presidency.

— Bob Woodward, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of aides

Noun

For carpenters, delays and poor weather conditions can disrupt the working hours apprentices need to complete their program, causing some to quit.

— Itzel Franco, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
The new funding will allow the school to add 16 apprentices, for a total of 51 trainees.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 2 Oct. 2026

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The deputies found no warrants or weapons and did not issue citations for the minor violations, the suit states.

— Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
But while critics on the Israeli right railed against the deal, Netanyahu’s deputies worked behind the scenes to preserve it, according to correspondence obtained by TIME.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of deputies

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Services include dental exams, cleanings, fillings, extractions and root canals, along with hearing evaluations and free hearing aids.

— Jessica Riley, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Prescription aids typically run about $3,400, while over-the-counter aids are roughly $500, according to a JAMA article published Thursday.

— Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 16 Oct. 2026

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