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Noun
Prior to her role at Planned Parenthood, Richards served as deputy chief of staff for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and founded America Votes, a group seeking to increase voter registration and participation. Sophia Vento, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025 The prison guard, a married father of five, had previously worked as a mall security guard, volunteered as an auxiliary sheriff’s deputy and drove a propane truck before taking the job at Corrections Corp. Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025 Internal affairs officials told the station brass, who sent surveys to a few dozen deputies asking whether the image was the symbol of a deputy gang or subgroup — and the deputies all said no. Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025 Two of Biden’s close aides – deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal, Jill Biden's top adviser – will take the lead on planning for a presidential library, Axios reported in December. Susan Page, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for deputy 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deputy
Noun
  • Despite the speculation, Barron has previously declined formal political roles, including serving as a Florida GOP delegate for the Republican National Convention.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • As the convention was ending, a delegate from rural Illinois asked Raby what his plans were.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Best of The Bee: A former executive assistant at UC Davis accused of embezzlement while working for the campus fire department made her first appearance Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court , via Rosalio Ahumada.
    Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Egan was a top assistant at Lower Merion under head coach Gregg Downer during Bryant’s junior and senior years, and first met the hoops prodigy on the courts of the local Jewish community center.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Newbury Park junior quarterback Brady Smigiel was named Cal-Hi’s Mr. Football.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • That rule has been lifted, resulting in a shift of junior talent across North America.
    Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As a representative, McKinley introduced the McKinley Tariff, which passed in 1890 and dramatically increased taxes on foreign products.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Customer service representatives are available 24/7 at 888-842-6328.
    Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Almost all of Biden’s senior aides were also senior aides to President Barack Obama, and many of the most senior stayed the full four years rather than making room for younger talents.
    Andrew Exum, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025
  • At the Resolute desk, an aide handed Trump orders for signing from a tall stack of navy-blue binders.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Even though Joel Wolfe, Sasaki's agent, has been trying to dispel that notion since at least November, he was asked to address it again Wednesday at Sasaki's introductory press conference in Los Angeles.
    Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • During Trump’s first term, immigration agents arrested people receiving emergency care in hospitals and a child during an ambulance transfer.
    Vanessa G Sánchez and Daniel Chang, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Law enforcement, insurance investigators and attorneys are increasingly rely on digital forensics to investigate trucking and vehicle accident incidents.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • And as investigations into the origins of the fire continue, civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Southern California Edison, alleging their mismanagement led to the Eaton Fire.
    Matt Friedman, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025

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“Deputy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deputy. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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