relievers

noun

plural of reliever
as in assistants

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relievers
  1. assistants
  2. attorneys
  3. surrogates
  4. factors
  5. proxies
  6. agents
  7. reps
  8. commissaries
Noun
  • Noncertified employees – staff like bus drivers, cafeteria workers and teaching assistants – will get a 3% raise.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
  • The appeals court ruled that Le Pen oversaw years of misuse by her National Rally party of European Parliament funds by paying staff with money intended for European Union parliamentary assistants.
    — Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • The board unanimously approved a motion by Supervisor Hilda Solis, directing county attorneys to send a letter to Lineage Logistics outlining a list of demands and requirements, and asking that the company respond within 48 hours.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 8 July 2026
  • Dugan's attorneys declined to comment ahead of the sentencing.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of attorneys
Noun
  • Equally vital, aging misers addicted to their vocations need palliatives and surrogates for the drug of importance.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • High-profile parents who used surrogates, such as Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and Chrissy Teigen, helped make the practice increasingly visible.
    — Mark Ellwood, Air Mail, 6 June 2026
Definition of surrogates
Noun
  • Prices are subject to rapid, unpredictable changes due to factors like, but not limited to, supply/demand, weather, and geopolitical events.
    — USA TODAY, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Humans are exposed to many factors that can influence the development of cancer, including naturally occurring radiation.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026
Definition of factors
Noun
  • Using proxies for past weather and more recent observations, studies confirm that climate is warming.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Ceremonies will then be held in Iraq's ⁠shrine cities of ​Najaf and Kerbala on Wednesday with prominent attendees from Iran's regional network of Shi'ite proxies.
    — Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of proxies
Noun
  • Dugan's case marked the first time that a state judge in Wisconsin went to trial on charges of obstructing immigration agents.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • But while police continued to piece together the case, Yepez was detained by federal immigration agents.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of agents
Noun
  • It's earned through reps, context, time in the actual work and the pattern-matching that takes years to build.
    — Abe Ankumah, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Neither Live Nation nor Richie's reps elaborated on the singer's condition.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of reps
Noun
  • Immigrants detained at two federal facilities in California have launched a boycott in protest of increasing and, in their view, burdensome prices at the facilities’ commissaries for items including tampons, coffee and soup.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • In 2025, the Pentagon explored privatizing commissaries, soliciting interest from commercial retailers and investment firms to take over operations at 178 domestic locations.
    — Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Definition of commissaries
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