assistants

noun

plural of assistant
as in aides
a person who helps a more skilled person the chief assistant to the director

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Recent Examples of assistants Unlike ordinary reporting tools, this platform also tracks actual financial results by providing revenue attribution at the SKU level to show which products consumers discover and purchase through the use of AI assistants. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026 Retailers can start by testing how products appear when shoppers ask AI assistants questions in their own words, and measuring results product by product. — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Devitt noted that the growing adoption of personal agents and AI shopping assistants has sparked concern about displacement of Amazon’s retail media business. — CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026 That puts Meta and Instinct in a fast-moving race to turn AI assistants into something closer to digital stand-ins. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026 That makes Ajax more of an ongoing experiment than a finished competitor to commercial AI assistants for now. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026 Social media last week blew up with masses of people who agreed and said the incident showed that AI assistants given access to calendars, emails, messages, shopping accounts, and other resources are akin to a skill saw or other power tool. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026 In the study, research assistants asked people to fill out a survey while the assistants had a blob of lipstick or food on their faces. — Jancee Dunn, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 The Royals currently have assistants Marcus Thames and Connor Dawson on Matt Quatraro’s staff. — Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assistants
  1. aides
  2. apprentices
  3. deputies
  4. aids
Noun
  • Regan had several phone calls with Newsom aides, who proposed compromises that Regan rejected.
    — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Many Kyl aides were just out of college or, as interns, still in college.
    — Lauren Weiner, Baltimore Sun, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of aides
Noun
  • For carpenters, delays and poor weather conditions can disrupt the working hours apprentices need to complete their program, causing some to quit.
    — Itzel Franco, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The new funding will allow the school to add 16 apprentices, for a total of 51 trainees.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of apprentices
Noun
  • According to the sheriff’s office, deputies began to administer first aid to Thaxton until an ambulance arrived.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Iza admitted to hiring off-duty sheriff’s deputies to provide him with personal security from August 2021 through April 2022.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of deputies
Noun
  • Accessibility features added to Apple’s AirPods are transforming the popular headphones into hearing aids, Greengart said.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Wider doorways and pathways make rooms feel more open now and leave space for mobility aids later.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of aids

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“Assistants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assistants. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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