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mentor

[men-tawr, -ter] / ˈmɛn tɔr, -tər /
NOUN
person who advises
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In McGinn, they have the best mentor they could possibly have, a player with fire and class and belief, a leader who's waited his entire career for weeks like these.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

She turned to one of her closest confidants—a mentor who had supported her and advised her for nearly three decades: Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Then their main producer and White’s mentor, Charles Stepney, suddenly died in 1976.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

Sanchez, a 57-year-old congressman draws on the rural background of his mentor, former president Pedro Castillo, a schoolteacher jailed after a failed attempt to dissolve Congress in 2022.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

He had since retired from competition, but he liked to come back to the Peter Westbrook Foundation—where he had gotten his start—to mentor and teach the younger kids on Saturday mornings.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad




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