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assistant

[uh-sis-tuhnt] / əˈsɪs tənt /


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She began her career as an assistant at Vanity Fair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Luke Winkie spoke with a 20-year-old assistant manager at one, and it turns out that it’s as bloodcurdling as it seems.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Sales of smart glasses -- which allow the wearer to shoot photos and videos, and interact with an AI assistant among other abilities -- are growing worldwide.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Based in Australia because of his role as Gold Coast Titans assistant coach, he relied on virtual meetings to connect with his prospective squad and staff.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

But Phineas and his assistant have done this a thousand times—pour the powder, set the fuse, pour the sand, tamp the sand plug, shout a warning, light the fuse, and run like mad.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

I know his backroom staff better - Steve Holland, Jonny Evans and Jonathan Woodgate - and they are all able assistants with knowledge and experience at the very top level.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Tech companies are also increasingly branding AI assistants as cute mascots, a choice that some say encourages users to project personalities and emotions onto the agent.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Virtual assistants steered our daily lives and still do.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Instead, my professor’s teaching assistants, who were doctoral students, said I had a bug in my program and they had failed to establish sufficient guardrails to prevent it from causing harm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Indeed, Tycho was sufficiently impressed that he suggested that Kepler might care to join the team of assistants surrounding the older man.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin


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