mentor

Example Sentences

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Holder, whom Glover has pointed to as a mentor, is happy to live vicariously through Glover’s generation of Black astronauts.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

I'm more the senior player and I need to mentor these young lads coming through.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Low points came during the defeat in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, as well as her personal and political rupture with her former mentor Alex Salmond, who died in October 2024.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Bidding to succeed his former mentor in 1995, Jospin shocked many Socialists by claiming a "right of inventory" over Mitterrand's legacy -- a right to reassess a record that loyalists deemed sacrosanct.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

She had seen her mentor Howard Fuller vilified.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson