as in assistant
a person who helps a more skilled person
he was appointed coadjutor to the president
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Recent Examples of coadjutor
Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
By 1997, he was named coadjutor archbishop of Buenos Aires, assuming full leadership of the archdiocese the following year.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Coyne was named archbishop coadjutor on June 25, 2023.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2024
Before he was consecrated bishop coadjutor, Bishop Spong served for 20 years as a priest in North Carolina and Virginia.
—Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
Curry, bishop coadjutor, currently assists retiring Bishop Sloan.
—al, 1 Dec. 2020
Anchorage’s former archbishop, Paul Etienne, was appointed to that position in 2016 and moved to Seattle in 2019 to serve as the coadjutor archbishop there.
—Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2020
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Schnurr came to Cincinnati in 2008 as coadjutor archbishop and took over as archbishop about a year later, upon the retirement of former Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for coadjutor
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The number varied dramatically, from $28,900 in overtime to Police Officer Sikko Barghoorn to $42 for legal assistant Joanna Ortega.—
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Prior to his time at North Crowley, Harris served as head coach at Mesquite High School and also had stints as an assistant at Cedar Hill, Richardson, Arlington Seguin and Little Elm.—
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In Wednesday’s loss to Grand Canyon, junior forward Andrew Meadow attempted just two shots from the field, neither from beyond the arc, despite being one of the Broncos’ best shooters and the team’s second-leading scorer.—
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One of the major contributors has been 6-foot-3 junior guard Johnny Thyfault, who’s averaging 16 points and has become a fan favorite because of his dunking skills.—
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At the time, there were an estimated 450 greater adjutant storks left in the region.—
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Since 2019, when Woodward took over as the Gooding adjutant, that totals more than $23,000, according to an accounting obtained by the Statesman from the county clerk through a public records request.—
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Former Healey administration aide LaMar Cook appears to have had debt issues prior to his most recent legal problems, according to court documents.—
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Former Littleton Public Schools aide Kiarra Jones pleaded guilty to 10 felony charges of third-degree assault of an at-risk child and two misdemeanor charges of child abuse on Monday, the Office of the District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District in Arapahoe County announced in a statement.—
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He was appointed the North District’s commander in 2015 and became deputy chief of criminal investigations in 2017.—
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Ultimately, however, Mamdani switched up the deputy mayor hierarchy by naming Leila Bozorg as his deputy mayor for housing and planning and Julie Su as his deputy mayor of economic justice.—
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Fire department personell who responded to the scene rendered aid to the man and transported him to a nearby hospital, but he was later pronounced dead.—
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Scarce aid can be maximized by investing in approaches that reach more people at less cost.—
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And for design lovers, there’s Taliesin West, built by Frank Lloyd Wright and his apprentices in the 1930s (and expanded upon until the architect’s death in 1959).—
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Kardashian, who is the daughter of the prominent late attorney Robert Kardashian, began studying law in 2018 through California’s Law Office Study Program, which allows aspiring lawyers to apprentice under licensed attorneys instead of attending law school.—
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Seyfried had her first speaking part at 15, followed by a recurring role on All My Children, before appearing in Mean Girls as Regina George’s sidekick Karen Smith, whose breasts can predict rain.—
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On the show, Don Knotts played Deputy Barney Fife, the comic sidekick to Sheriff Andy Taylor.—
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“Coadjutor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coadjutor. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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