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One year after he left for the U.S. as a second-round NBA draft pick, another center, this one a 19-year-old from Croatia, arrived in Belgrade to learn from the coach who had tutored Jokic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2022

Gronen decided to call Don Koppes, a retired Dubuque Community School District teacher, who had tutored her sons.

From Washington Times • Sep. 5, 2020

Hedberg, the quarterbacks coach at North Dakota State, had tutored Wentz for two seasons.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2016

With the help of Moore, who had tutored the young Duke of York in mathematics, it was brought to the attention of the duke's brother, Charles II himself.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2014

Abandoned by all human beings, and 124 most probably by the son whom he had tutored in the arts of villany, he appears to have wandered about, an infamous and distracted beggar.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac