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protégé

[proh-tuh-zhey, proh-tuh-zhey] / ˈproʊ təˌʒeɪ, ˌproʊ təˈʒeɪ /


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A Greek Orthodox Christian and a protégé of tech billionaire Peter Thiel, Kratsios argued that when AI exhausts human knowledge, humanity will look beyond reason for ultimate answers about man’s place in the universe.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

Southern postmasters thus continued to withhold antislavery periodicals, with the tacit approval of Jackson protégé Kendall.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

I laughed when a protégé called me a digital nomad in the gig economy, like him.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Education Secretary Mairi McAllan - a former Sturgeon protégé - said the claims were "nonsense".

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

From the start Constantin guessed I wasn't any protégé of Mrs. Willard's.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Except for Mr. Ehrlich and the saxophonist and composer Tim Berne, Hemphill had few protégés.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

Does Druckenmiller have any other protégés out there that we should be paying attention to?

From Barron's Feb. 2, 2026

The way Chua’s clerkship placement system operated was to move around law protégés like chess pieces that accrued the most power to the Chua system.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2024

Indeed, there are now three Sarkozy protégés in government: Ms Vautrin, Ms Dati and Mr Darmanin.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2024

“This is not a question for the microscope,” one of his protégés wrote—a sly barb directed at Bateson, Morgan, and de Vries.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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