as in advisers
a person who gives advice especially professionally
a consultant in public relations to a number of large corporations
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Recent Examples of consultants
That’s very different from a burdensome reporting requirement about transparency that’s going to make a bunch of consultants very rich.
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Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 20 May 2026
Professional services firms, by contrast, are spending heavily on AI tools for their consultants and analysts but are finding that client billing rates haven't moved in proportion—the productivity gain is being competed away in pricing rather than retained as margin.
—Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Gilmore said the city is working with architecture consultants on a long-term modernization plan for Bartle Hall and the Municipal Auditorium.
—Dylan Lysen
may 19, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
Research has started to confirm what consultants are seeing in the field.
—Michele Zanello, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
One of our consultants is Jonathan Chorovicz.
—Ben Rosenstock, Time, 18 May 2026
In 2018, Labour had revoked a cap on public sector jobs imposed by the last National government, saying that had prompted ballooning spending on contractors and consultants by agencies avoiding new full-time hires.
—ABC News, 18 May 2026
Not the consultants charging five figures a day to explain it to executive teams.
—Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Fortune, 13 May 2026
In line with control science’s long-standing naturalization of capitalist hierarchy, and its war on intention itself, this reasoning made employers’ and consultants’ responsibility to their workers irrelevant.
—Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 20 May 2026
Professional services firms, by contrast, are spending heavily on AI tools for their consultants and analysts but are finding that client billing rates haven't moved in proportion—the productivity gain is being competed away in pricing rather than retained as margin.
—Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Gilmore said the city is working with architecture consultants on a long-term modernization plan for Bartle Hall and the Municipal Auditorium.
—Dylan Lysen
may 19, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2026
Research has started to confirm what consultants are seeing in the field.
—Michele Zanello, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
One of our consultants is Jonathan Chorovicz.
—Ben Rosenstock, Time, 18 May 2026
In 2018, Labour had revoked a cap on public sector jobs imposed by the last National government, saying that had prompted ballooning spending on contractors and consultants by agencies avoiding new full-time hires.
—ABC News, 18 May 2026
Not the consultants charging five figures a day to explain it to executive teams.
—Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Fortune, 13 May 2026
In line with control science’s long-standing naturalization of capitalist hierarchy, and its war on intention itself, this reasoning made employers’ and consultants’ responsibility to their workers irrelevant.
—Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consultants
advisers
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Publicists now have to function as strategists, festival advisors, marketers, audience builders, and expectation managers navigating an industry that has more parties than ever competing for shares of a shrinking pie.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
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The advisors who are winning here are the ones who stay close to their clients, not just to their numbers, but to what’s actually happening in their lives.—
David Mozeika,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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“Consultants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consultants. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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