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assistant

[uh-sis-tuhnt] / əˈsɪs tənt /


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The 31-year-old teaching assistant, who wears a headscarf, burst into tears in front of the security guard's booth -- the very spot where Abdullah gave his life to prevent a massacre.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Whenever you use AI as a research assistant, subject-matter expert, or souped-up search engine, you need to grapple with the risk of hallucination—AI’s tendency to make up its own facts.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Ramkumar Thiyagarajan, a former postdoctoral researcher in Kirkwood's lab who is now an assistant professor at the University of Kansas, served as the paper's first author.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

The Google’s so-called "audio glasses" will be equipped with a microphone, camera and small speaker, and will allow users to make calls, listen to music, take photos and chat with the Gemini AI assistant.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Darkness said, “Finding an assistant, such as First Turkey’s Seed Collector, takes two moon cycles. And someone would have to go to Changing Woman herself.”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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