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as in registrar
an official whose job is to keep records
you'll need to get a copy of your birth certificate from the office of the town clerk
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as in salesman
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store
the clerk suggested a different brand
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as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
the clerks in the rural parishes were for the most part sons of merchants
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Recent Examples of clerk
Black said his research found older judges rely more on their clerks - and might need more support from colleagues.
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Carrie Johnson, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026
Attorneys for Fulton County, Georgia, argued in federal court Friday that an FBI agent who filed an affidavit in support of a search warrant of the county clerk's office for 2020 election ballots omitted information about the election and how it was conducted in the county.
—Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
While Marie was incarcerated at Bryan, working in the education department as a clerk, her boss, Donald Ross, often sent her to a storage closet in the testing room to organize supplies.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
López-Owens said the clerk should have a larger public presence to boost voter turnout, after Marion County's voting rates lagged in the 2024 general election.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 26 Mar. 2026
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Carrie Johnson, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026
Attorneys for Fulton County, Georgia, argued in federal court Friday that an FBI agent who filed an affidavit in support of a search warrant of the county clerk's office for 2020 election ballots omitted information about the election and how it was conducted in the county.
—Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
While Marie was incarcerated at Bryan, working in the education department as a clerk, her boss, Donald Ross, often sent her to a storage closet in the testing room to organize supplies.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
López-Owens said the clerk should have a larger public presence to boost voter turnout, after Marion County's voting rates lagged in the 2024 general election.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clerk
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The county registrar of voters would be the front line standing next to him.—
Laurie Perez,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Art Tinoco, the Riverside County registrar of voters, has refuted that number — saying it was based on a misunderstanding of raw data that had not been fully processed.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Carrying $14 and two shirts — one of which was far too big for him, his daughter said — Jarad connected with a contact person in Manhattan and began working as a door-to-door salesman in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
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Related Stories Henry Rinnan, an ordinary family man and unremarkable salesman, becomes the Gestapo’s most valuable Norwegian agent.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2026
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He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Grand Island in 1994 and served as vicar general and pastor of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary before his 2021 appointment to Colorado Springs, according to the archdiocese.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
26 Mar. 2026
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Chief among his many complaints was the Catholic Church’s sale of indulgences, which had become not only widespread but even mandatory for many priests, in order to generate funds to pay for the construction of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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The meeting started with more than an hour of comments from the public, before the board voted to appoint Pete Geren as its president, Courtney Lewis as its vice president and Rosa Maria Berdeja as its secretary.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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The probe is focused on Councilmember Farah Louis and Debbie Louis, who serves as the governor's assistant secretary of New York City governmental affairs.—
CBS New York Team,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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His father, much older than his mom, was a preacher who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Moreover, as soon as Christianity began to spread outside his native land, Christian converts faced new situations in unexpected contexts, completely different from those of their founder, an itinerant Jewish preacher in the sparsely populated hinterlands of rural Galilee.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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The plaques, which were more than 100 years old, honored many people including ministers from the early 1800s and American Revolutionary soldiers.—
Paul Burton,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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India’s finance minister Nirmal Sitharaman said the country has cut the special excise on petrol and diesel for domestic consumption by 10 rupees per litre each, in a post on X on Friday.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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The pompous clergyman enters the life of the Bennet family, his distant cousins, with the assumption that, given his respectable position and benefactor, Lady Catherine De Bourgh, one of those daughters would be happy to marry him.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Garage owner and keen early automobilist Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan, the son of a rural English clergyman, built his first car, an eponymous prototype, in 1909.—
Jamie Kitman,
Air Mail,
21 Feb. 2026
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In ninth grade, a deacon at his family’s church in Columbus—a Tuskegee Airman himself—took the family out to an airfield.—
Marie-Rose Sheinerman,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2026
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His comfortable life as a deacon’s son was disrupted at the age of 16 when he was captured and enslaved by Irish raiders, spending the next years as a shepherd on a remote, often freezing hillside.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Clerk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerk. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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