stenographer
noun
ste·nog·ra·pher
stə-ˈnä-grə-fər 
1
: a writer of shorthand
2
: a person employed chiefly to take and transcribe dictation
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The black-robed judge and court stenographer leaned in to hear plaintiffs as their testimony under oath was recorded for a national television audience.
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Sarah Varney, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
At the time, Ruth was working as a stenographer at Paramount Studios, and Elliot was designing light fixtures.
—Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
Laura makes $17 an hour as a court stenographer, and Herman brings in money from his disability benefit.
—Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
The film is based on the true story of Mildred Burke, the first million-dollar female athlete in history, who in the 1930s left a job as an office stenographer to pursue a professional women's wrestling career.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 15 June 2023
Bottoms Up deepens our understanding of the whistleblowers, exiles, turncoats, and other outcasts whose lives were transformed into crude ideological narratives by self-interested politicians and spies and then promulgated by stenographers in the mainstream press.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
Although originally hired as a stenographer, Driscoll eventually became the Navy’s primary cryptographer responsible for cracking Japanese Navy manual codes, including the Red Book Code in the 1920s, the Blue Book Code in 1930, and the Japanese fleet's operational code in the early 1940s.
—Amy Wilson, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
His father was a building contractor and real estate broker, his mother a stenographer and bookkeeper.
—Brian Seibert, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
She’s joined by a bailiff (Kevin Rasco), a stenographer (Whitney Kumar) and a court reporter (Sarah Rose, Sheindlin’s granddaughter), each of whom will return for the second season.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022
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Sarah Varney, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
At the time, Ruth was working as a stenographer at Paramount Studios, and Elliot was designing light fixtures.
—Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
Laura makes $17 an hour as a court stenographer, and Herman brings in money from his disability benefit.
—Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
The film is based on the true story of Mildred Burke, the first million-dollar female athlete in history, who in the 1930s left a job as an office stenographer to pursue a professional women's wrestling career.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 15 June 2023
Bottoms Up deepens our understanding of the whistleblowers, exiles, turncoats, and other outcasts whose lives were transformed into crude ideological narratives by self-interested politicians and spies and then promulgated by stenographers in the mainstream press.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
Although originally hired as a stenographer, Driscoll eventually became the Navy’s primary cryptographer responsible for cracking Japanese Navy manual codes, including the Red Book Code in the 1920s, the Blue Book Code in 1930, and the Japanese fleet's operational code in the early 1940s.
—Amy Wilson, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
His father was a building contractor and real estate broker, his mother a stenographer and bookkeeper.
—Brian Seibert, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
She’s joined by a bailiff (Kevin Rasco), a stenographer (Whitney Kumar) and a court reporter (Sarah Rose, Sheindlin’s granddaughter), each of whom will return for the second season.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2022
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First Known Use
1809, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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stenographer
noun
ste·nog·ra·pher
stə-ˈnäg-rə-fər
1
: a writer of shorthand
2
: one employed chiefly to take and make a copy of dictation
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