protégé
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But Mr. Abrams brings something unique to the job: He is the highest-profile protégé of Michael Tilson Thomas, a seven-time music director of this festival.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Backstage, the British star was full of praise for his protégé.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Deborah famously tried to muzzle Ava a few times, only to back off when she realized that by hurting her protégé, she was wounding herself.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
Altman, his former protégé turned adversary, was present for Thursday's exchanges and left the courthouse shortly after Musk finished.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
He was, indeed, rejected in favour of David Gregory, a protégé of Isaac Newton.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Does Druckenmiller have any other protégés out there that we should be paying attention to?
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Since taking power in 2012, Xi has packed the leadership with loyalists, sidelined subordinates who owed their rise to predecessors and even cashiered some of his own protégés.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Uganda's current junior chess champion, 19-year-old Jovan Kasozi - one of Mr Katende's protégés - has also been hit.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
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
“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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