assistant
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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
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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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