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assistant

[uh-sis-tuhnt] / əˈsɪs tənt /


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While aligned in principles when he was his assistant, he was already developing his own thinking.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

“Casino gambling used to be localized, so younger people weren’t really ever exposed to this,” said Logan Fields, an assistant professor of psychology at Arcadia University.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

The authors—Mr. Dutkiewicz is an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute, Mr. Rosenberg is an associate professor at Duke University—harbor few illusions about the past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

“If you copy-paste chunks of ChatGPT with minimal edits, then Pangram is fairly accurate,” Tuhin Chakrabarty, an assistant professor of computer science at SUNY, told me.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

In June McNamara asked his assistant, John McNaughton, to start collecting classified documents for future use by government officials and scholars.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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