as in adviser
a person who gives advice especially professionally the President's trusted consigliere and chief political strategist

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Recent Examples of consigliere For now the permanent government in basketball is three men: Dolan, Leon Rose, and Rose’s consigliere William Wesley. Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 3 July 2025 Employees, including security and personal assistants, and Combs’s premier consigliere—a woman named Kristina Khorram, or K.K., a former chief of staff of Combs Enterprises, whom spectators cast as the Ghislaine to Combs’s Epstein—would facilitate his desires and tidy his messes. Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025 Potential future consigliere and lawyer Albert Schner (Rob Reiner) has been meeting with Ebra (Edwin Lee Gibson) all season about how profitable The Beef sandwich window attached to The Bear has been. Skyler Trepel, People.com, 29 June 2025 Because Gilroy chose to focus on writing future episodes and rarely came to set, Luna served as his consigliere. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for consigliere
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Noun
  • Harold Hamm The oil billionaire and Continental Resources founder has been an informal adviser to Trump on energy issues.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The artisans also had access to a military advisor, Dan Karbler, who was accessible at all times.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
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  • What To Know Democrats Peter Hubbard, a renewable energy advocate, and Alicia Johnson, a health care consultant, are challenging Republican incumbents Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Previously, Chen was an executive director for housing finance and financial markets research at the JPMorgan Chase Institute and an economics consultant at Analysis Group.
    Alix Langone, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • In early 2024, the sport’s biggest name became embroiled in legal controversy when his personal interpreter and close confidant, Ippei Mizuhara, was found to have wired large payments from the player’s account to a bookmaking operation then under federal investigation.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In the film, Mike is portrayed as a confidant as Bruce records the album.
    Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Consigliere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consigliere. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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