How to Use aide in a Sentence

aide

noun
  • The senate office hired several congressional aides.
  • Jim and her health aide pleaded with her to change her mind.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • His shocked aide urged him to take the remarks off the record, but Hoover encouraged the reporters to publish.
    Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Baker taped the interview Sunday, according to an aide.
    Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The Tumwater School District reported its student did puzzles while his aide — whom the district paid for — slept in the classroom.
    Mike Reicher, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Still, and it cannot be dismissed entirely out of hand, Trump knew his former aide Karen Giorno, who joined the meal, and didn’t do a quick pull-aside to ask her who their interloper was.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Harris on the call discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and emphasized the need for Trump to be a president for all Americans, the aide said.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge,annika Kim Constantino,michele Luhn,ashley Capoot,julie Coleman,josephine Rozzelle,ece Yildirim,ruxandra Iordache,dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,cj Haddad, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Two of Trump’s aides have also been charged in the case.
    Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • As Leahy said, his aide was the dog with the marrow bone.
    George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • One of his aides, Walt Nauta, was also charged in the case.
    David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • Wheeler was a mother of five who worked as a home health aide.
    Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024
  • Democratic aides cite the results of the 2022 midterm election.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But as Duke discussed the problem of staffing shortages, Schakowsky turned to her aide.
    Jennifer Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • In 2019, a home health care aide going to work before dawn was attacked by a group and bled to death.
    Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Perez has been an aide to De León for about a year and half, according to his LinkedIn profile.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Her press aide was filming our exchange with his phone.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The third recalled watching Paxton and an aide walk out of the office carrying the cake box.
    Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But Trump wants to be Trump, free from the discipline his aides have sought vainly to impose.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
  • But that doesn’t mean Biden and his aides are pulling their punches entirely.
    Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The catch: Sloane has serious health problems, and Whit hires a home health aide to assist her.
    Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • The aide requested anonymity to speak about the senator’s health.
    Mary Clare Jalonick, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Throughout the summit, aides will pass notes to Biden, and there will be hallway huddles with diplomats and aides.
    Tara Sonenshine, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • The caller, a top aide to Meadows, Ben Williamson, said that someone had something to tell Hutchinson.
    Luke Broadwater Philip Montgomery, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, Wyckoff says, this aide moved furniture out of the way.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 15 May 2024
  • An aide, in the email, stated that McConnell feels fine and will consult with a physician before his next event.
    Scott Wartman, The Courier-Journal, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Even his aides acknowledged the previous night's events had worn him down.
    Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • And in Lithuania, one of Navalny’s aides was bludgeoned by a hammer – a message that even home soil is not safe.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
  • His widowed grandfather needed an aide, but the first didn’t work out.
    Terry Spencer, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
  • An aide at the time said Harris purchased a handgun years before her statement and that it was locked up.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Some of his former senior aides and Harris have labeled him a fascist in response.
    Adriana Gomez Licon and Aamer Madhani The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Nov. 2024

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