as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person
the senator's adjutants and aides always arrive ahead of him on the campaign trail
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Recent Examples of adjutant
In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership.
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Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 July 2024
Whereas until recently political elites had a degree of decision-making power, the war has made them into the executors of Putin’s will, mere adjutants to the generalissimo.
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Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Mar. 2024
His first innovation, suggested by the director and Factory adjutant Paul Morrissey, was to add the German chanteuse Nico to the Velvets’ lineup.
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Jeremy Lybarger,
The New Republic,
17 Oct. 2023
In postwar court documents he is referred to as Arājs’s adjutant.
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Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
20 July 2023
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Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
13 July 2024
Whereas until recently political elites had a degree of decision-making power, the war has made them into the executors of Putin’s will, mere adjutants to the generalissimo.
—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Mar. 2024
His first innovation, suggested by the director and Factory adjutant Paul Morrissey, was to add the German chanteuse Nico to the Velvets’ lineup.
—
Jeremy Lybarger,
The New Republic,
17 Oct. 2023
In postwar court documents he is referred to as Arājs’s adjutant.
—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
20 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjutant
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Bollo, the son of a domestic worker and a line cook, said he’s applied to work as a teaching assistant and graduate researcher, which would waive the cost of his tuition.
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How — and to what extent — AI might reshape her profession remains to be seen, but jobs for administrative assistants and secretaries have been dwindling for decades.
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Some aides were pushing him to run for president in 2016 instead.
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As aides at the Capitol were actively building a stage for the celebratory event, meant to communicate a big cost-of-living win to voters, the president abruptly canceled it.
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Travis Medema, chief deputy for the Oregon State Fire Marshall, said his office will use FireSat to plan escape routes and monitor fires.
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With the help of a family friend, a retired deputy sheriff, Robinson’s parents persuaded him to surrender to authorities, according to charging documents.
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Across all trades Pennsylvania infamously requires four journeymen per apprentice, as do Maryland and New Jersey.
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Guests will hear the shuffle of San Francisco outside the windows, phones ringing, and the lingering voices of apprentices or other clients.
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The Real Cost of Waiting Only one in four adults who could benefit from a hearing aid has ever used one, and the average person waits nine years after a diagnosis before doing anything about it.
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Most people who could benefit from a hearing aid have never used one.
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Fifteen defendants have been sentenced in a domestic terrorism case tied to a July 4, 2025, protest at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in North Texas, where an Alvarado police lieutenant was shot and wounded.
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Five, including the company owner and a former Yolo County sheriff’s lieutenant, have been charged with murder.
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“Adjutant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjutant. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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