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assistant

[uh-sis-tuhnt] / əˈsɪs tənt /


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When I was at Chipotle, I had a personal assistant who managed the calendar, and when I retired 5½ years ago, I decided I was going to do my own.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

"This is a key step forward," said Andrea Richard, co-lead of the study and assistant professor and interim director of the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory at Ohio University.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

Cook also addressed Apple's impending public relaunch of Siri, an AI assistant that the company has seemingly struggled to make competitive in an era of proliferating AI chatbots from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

It’s a view echoed by Lynette Johnston, assistant professor and food-safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

The photographer and his assistant begin to pack up their equipment and I stand paralyzed in the center of the room, a statue they must maneuver around.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

If doctors, pilots, bus and taxi drivers, restaurant and museum staff, journalists, police officers and even masseurs may work on Sundays, why not shop assistants?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Nevertheless, the assistants were on call 24/7, Anya says.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

It is a calculus playing out across the tech industry as a new generation of AI-powered coding assistants transforms how software gets built.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Saar would often hire them as assistants in the studio, she explains: “We’d help her sew, or draw, or glue things together.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Neither Rush nor his assistants could handle the press of sick people demanding his cure.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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