juniors

noun

plural of junior
as in subordinates
one who is of lower rank and typically under the authority of another she's his junior in the company

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Recent Examples of juniors Kirsch said this year’s tight ends have stepped up without a senior presence, complimenting redshirt juniors Ka’Morreun Pimpton and Lafayette Kaiuway. — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Aug. 2026 Each summer, the academy hosts rising high school sophomores and juniors and develops personal, intellectual and leadership skills. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026 Wide receiver Major Floyd and defensive back Bryson Hazley, both juniors, are top-250 national prospects for a team coming off a 3-8 finish. — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026 The edge rushers are led by a trio in Missouri transfer Damon Wilson II plus juniors Armondo Blount and Marquise Lightfoot. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026 Many high school juniors like 16-year-old Santhosh Arunkumar have never known a three-month summer. — Leslie Griffy, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026 Sally will make its debut at Salamanca High School, on the Allegany Indian Reservation, about 60 miles south of Buffalo, teaching juniors and seniors. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 1 Aug. 2026 Franklin had a reputation as one of the feistiest juniors in the country, a brat with a big ego and a big mouth. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 July 2026 In this exclusive 90-minute interview with Rolling Stone, the soon-to-be high school juniors are smart, poised, and funny. — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for juniors
  1. subordinates
  2. minions
  3. underlings
  4. henchmen
  5. assistants
  6. inferiors
Noun
  • Impressive Humility with peers, and something else entirely with subordinates.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Putin has also protected his direct allies while not extending any such shield to younger subordinates.
    — Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of subordinates
Noun
  • Just as Wolverine is surrounded, he’s saved by Mystique, who’s shape-shifted herself into one of Trask’s minions.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • One of Danhausen’s minions took out Mysterio with a flipping dive on the outside.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of minions
Noun
  • Rumors of relationships between executives and underlings went around on campus.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
  • France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival gets underway this weekend with Illumination’s Minions & Monsters, the latest movie devoted to the mischievous army of yellow underlings first introduced in 2010 breakout Despicable Me.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 June 2026
Definition of underlings
Noun
  • The psychedelic sequence that follows, punctuated by three European henchmen tailing the girls in a black SUV, is funny enough.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026
  • And so does Jesse — particularly the latest installment, which sees the iconic henchmen find themselves as accidental stars in 1920s Hollywood.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
Definition of henchmen
Noun
  • Every SaaS provider is building its own agent, but retailers can’t realistically deploy dozens of competing assistants across a single customer journey.
    — Footwear News, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence assistants have billions of users — but data on how people are really using the tools is sparse and fragmented.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • That comes to the Philippines in the form of war, as well as through the invocation, or establishment, of American-style modes of government and education that place Filipinos along this racial hierarchy, identifying them as these inferiors that need to be taught how to govern themselves.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Definition of inferiors

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