as in coach
a person who trains performers or athletes hired a personal trainer to help her get in shape

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Recent Examples of trainer Stars often have access to top surgeons, longer recovery times, personal trainers, nutritionists...the list goes on. Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025 But the athletes, coaches, trainers, scorekeepers, announcers, bleacher shiners, equipment managers, team statisticians and mascots are the lifeline of the games. Dana Hunsinger Benbow, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 Mahomes’ trainer Bobby Stroupe apparently caught wind of Roethlisberger’s comment and didn’t seem upset by Rodgers being ranked over Mahomes. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025 The defense subpoenas were granted regarding a boxing trainer who knew Kohberger as a teenager, a childhood acquaintance of Kohberger’s and a third man whose significance was not explained. Rebecca Boone, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for trainer
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Noun
  • Since then, however, the UCL’s most successful coach of all time has taken the Brazil national team manager’s post while Alonso now mans the dugout at the Club World Cup.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • The veteran coach has led a team to the NBA Finals, turned perennial losers into playoff threats and helped guide Golden State’s dynasty from the sidelines as an assistant.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • The manager is responsible for overseeing the operations and production of these areas.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2025
  • With no small amount of pride, property managers associated with Madison Equities led tours of the Degree of Honor building in 2021, showing off the former office building’s full-scale conversion into 78 housing units.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025

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“Trainer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainer. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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