aide-de-camp
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Ella Stiller is their ingenuous aide-de-camp, Busy Philipps a flamboyant investor and Renée Elise Goldsberry as an opposing counsel who has history with Colter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Sam Dalrymple has real Raj pedigree, his paternal grandfather being Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, the aide-de-camp to Frank Messervy, the first commander in chief of the army of independent Pakistan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
They were called to testify at Police headquarters in Brasilia, along with Bolsonaro's former aide-de-camp Mauro Cid, his father, a retired army general, and another military officer that was a presidential aide.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023
He was aide-de-camp to the ousted leader's father, Omar Bongo, who ruled for almost 42 years until his death in 2009.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023
Burger had been loaned as an aide-de-camp to the head of the medical division of the storm troopers, a former Olympian athlete and doctor named Emil Ketterer.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Several of his most valuable aides-de-camp, including writing partner Billy Strayhorn and star saxophonist Johnny Hodges, had struck out on their own, and for the only time, the Maestro’s own inspiration seemed to flag.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
He also wisely chose as his aides-de-camp a pair of young go-getters, Mike Tamburro and Lou Schwechheimer, both eager to sell pregame tickets and pick up postgame trash to make the venture work.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2015
Last week Cubans doubted the story that his two grown daughters, pistols strapped to their sides, were his aides-de-camp in the field.
From Time Magazine Archive
Day the Assembly opened, he drove first to St. Giles's Cathedral and then to Assembly Hall, with his wife, purse-bearer, aides-de-camp, ladies-in-waiting and cavalry escort.
From Time Magazine Archive
Napoleon wrote little with his own hand; nearly all the items of his correspondence were dictated to his secretaries, to his aides-de-camp and his chief of staff, or to his ministers.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
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