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plural protégés
A person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced person (a protector or mentor). quotations examples
While Yau was in China, he visited Xi-Ping Zhu, a protégé of his who was now chairman of the mathematics department at Sun Yat-sen University.
2006 August 28, Sylvia Nasar, David Gruber, “Manifold Destiny”, in The New Yorker