teaching assistant
noun
a graduate student in a college or university who is the recipient of a teaching fellowship. TA
teaching assistants
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pluralof teaching assistant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Instead, my professor’s teaching assistants, who were doctoral students, said I had a bug in my program and they had failed to establish sufficient guardrails to prevent it from causing harm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Wood said that the charity, that has been running for seven years, helped "a lot of teachers, teaching assistants, a lot of hospital staff, self-employed".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Sylvia Haughney, from the Unison union, says she is hearing the same stories from teaching assistants across the country and that local authorities need to do far more to train, support and risk assess.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
The discovery was made by ten students enrolled in the university's "Field Course in Astrophysics," taught by Professor Alex Ji, deputy Project Scientist for SDSS-V, along with graduate teaching assistants Hillary Andales and Pierre Thibodeaux.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2026
Late afternoon: In the office at Berkeley I shared with several other lecturers and teaching assistants, I was grading some papers.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
