assistant
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I asked his executive assistant to keep my visit a surprise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Anna Ho, an assistant professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a coauthor with Perley on the paper, identified the remarkable event soon after its light arrived at Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Buried in the U.S. government’s consumer-price index is a category called ”computers, peripherals and smart-home assistant devices.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
His only prior work in senior football before the Southampton job came through 15 months as the number two at Barnsley, and three years as assistant boss at Italian club Genoa.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
When the superintendent and the assistant had turned on us, they’d turned their backs on her.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
That includes an estimated 16,000 cooks and servers, 8,000 stockers and packers and 4,000 nursing assistants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
When other assistants took time for vacation this summer, Patterson stayed in the facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Jaissle has brought three assistants with him in Alexander Hauser, Engin Yanova and Florens Koch, two coach analysts in Maximilian Fischer and Steffen Konrad and a goalkeeping coach, Alexander Bade.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Many worked on the shop floor at Harrods in London or were hired as assistants at his various businesses including the Ritz hotel in Paris.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Often she had no money to pay assistants and worked alone in the nearly empty valley.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing assistant
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ant, -ent
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