protege
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- n a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career
- As a young engineering student in England, Wittgenstein saw the hope of the new mathematical logic, and rushed to Cambridge to become the protege of Bertrand Russell, whose .
- At the same time, Atwater -- who cut his political teeth as a protege of South Carolina's once segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond -- downplayed his role in devising the crypto .
- Unlike Dior, Saint Laurent has no protege waiting in the wings.