protégée

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West’s collaborator and protegée Chance the Rapper offered a special Thanksgiving prayer for West during an interview on BBC 1 on Tuesday.

From Time • Nov. 22, 2016

Chilly was coming round to his protegée after all.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah

It was plain to see that big Bill Hay almost worshipped this lovely protegée of the wife he more than worshipped.

From A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier by Deming, Edwin Willard

For the sake of the elderly pet to whom she is indebted for her daily supply of scandal, she consents to countenance his protegée.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

It was Patsy, a madcap protegée of Cynthia Carper, the biggest tomboy that ever climbed a tree or ran a saddle-horse into "kingdom come."

From Dwellers in the Hills by Post, Melville Davisson