as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person
the nurse's aide will bring you an extra pillow served as an aide in his father's senatorial campaign
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Recent Examples of aide
Driving the news: The scale of House members eyeing bids for higher office in 2026 is far greater than is publicly known, according to lawmakers and aides who spoke to Axios.
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Andrew Solender, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
The filing described how Trump and his aides allegedly planned to challenge the results of the 2020 election well before Election Day and pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
—Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2024
Trump and his aides claim there is a long presidential history of impoundment dating back to Thomas Jefferson.
—Molly Redden, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2024
And the indictment doesn’t say whether Netanyahu in fact knew in June that one of his aides had illegally received a document pilfered from military intelligence.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2024
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Andrew Solender, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
The filing described how Trump and his aides allegedly planned to challenge the results of the 2020 election well before Election Day and pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
—Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2024
Trump and his aides claim there is a long presidential history of impoundment dating back to Thomas Jefferson.
—Molly Redden, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2024
And the indictment doesn’t say whether Netanyahu in fact knew in June that one of his aides had illegally received a document pilfered from military intelligence.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aide
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The Giants hired Belichick as a special teams assistant in 1979 and promoted him to defensive coordinator in 1985.Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, a Hardeeville assistant coach started recruiting players to a new team in Georgia, which never came to fruition.Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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But when Dobbs overturned Roe in 2022, aid organizations’ work became more in demand, more expensive, and more complicated, Marisa Falcon, the executive director of a hub for practical-support groups called Apiary, told me.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2024
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At every aid station, volunteers handed out snacks and electrolytes, rang cowbells and called out our names with words of encouragement.Antonia Bowring, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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The series followed Norman's Henry Hart, whom superhero Captain Man (Cooper Barnes) selected as his apprentice.Dory Jackson, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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The series follows the adventures of Henry Hart, who gets selected by superhero Captain Man to be his apprentice.Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
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In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership.Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024
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Since 2019, when Woodward took over as the Gooding adjutant, that totals more than $23,000, according to an accounting obtained by the Statesman from the county clerk through a public records request.Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024
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Nicholas Denny, a former Bibb County, Ga., sheriff's deputy, was revealed to have been fired by lead sheriff David Davis more than a year after the district attorney told the sheriff's office Denny lied about a local jailer committing a crime.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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America First, the nonprofit group founded by Stephen Miller, who is set to become Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, took a victory lap after the ruling.Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Aide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aide. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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