as in veteran
a person with long experience in a specified area
he's a hardened vet of many political campaigns
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Recent Examples of vet
Since its founding in 1979, Home Depot has supported military veterans by offering discounts to veteran customers and hiring vets to work in the stores.
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Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Stewart is also in the midst of planning marketing events that honors veterans on key holidays, offering discounts to military vets and first responders who buy on the company website, and donations to select charitable nonprofits.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
Tech vet Ashwin Raj has become CEO succeeding Artie Minson whose past roles included co-CEO of WeWork and chief financial officer of Time Warner Cable.
—Iris Dorbian, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Also serving as exec producers/writers are comedy vets Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof, while Dana Honor is an EP and Jeff Blitz is the EP/director for the pilot.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
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Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Stewart is also in the midst of planning marketing events that honors veterans on key holidays, offering discounts to military vets and first responders who buy on the company website, and donations to select charitable nonprofits.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2025
Tech vet Ashwin Raj has become CEO succeeding Artie Minson whose past roles included co-CEO of WeWork and chief financial officer of Time Warner Cable.
—Iris Dorbian, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Also serving as exec producers/writers are comedy vets Jeff Astrof and Liz Astrof, while Dana Honor is an EP and Jeff Blitz is the EP/director for the pilot.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vet
veteran
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Notre Dame still has a secondary problem To understand the desperation within Notre Dame’s defense, consider the Irish chose to start two freshmen cornerbacks for the first time, while changing positions for the one veteran in the group.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
21 Sep. 2025
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And Guibord, a former police officer and firefighter, typically dons the military jacket of her World War II veteran father for the endeavor.—
Darcie Moran,
Freep.com,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Vet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vet. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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