as in public servant
a worker in a government agency
took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department
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Recent Examples of civil servant
Last year, approximately three hundred and fifty-two thousand civil servants left their jobs, fulfilling one of the Administration’s stated goals of dismantling the government bureaucracy and demoralizing the federal workforce.
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Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
The best way to begin this journey is to bring people into this system by expanding Medicare to civil servants, military, police, and teachers.
—Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
All told, the agency lost more than 17,000 civil servants through firings and resignations in 2025—including many scientific leaders at the FDA, CDC and NIH.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
Gezi gave way to crackdowns and an administrative witch hunt that saw thousands of academics, judges, journalists, lawyers, and civil servants jailed.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
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Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
The best way to begin this journey is to bring people into this system by expanding Medicare to civil servants, military, police, and teachers.
—Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
All told, the agency lost more than 17,000 civil servants through firings and resignations in 2025—including many scientific leaders at the FDA, CDC and NIH.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026
Gezi gave way to crackdowns and an administrative witch hunt that saw thousands of academics, judges, journalists, lawyers, and civil servants jailed.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil servant
Noun
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The perpetrators were not children, but knowledgeable adults who willfully chose to harass public servants.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Callum Heskett pleaded guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, and false reporting of an emergency, a misdemeanor, according to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The conservatorship ended in 2021, according to the outlet, which cited confirmation from a clerk for the Los Angeles Superior Court.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
23 Feb. 2026
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West, in an interview Monday, said the arrangement keeps each party in charge of its primary and avoids friction that has occurred when clerks from different parties worked side by side.—
Tracey McManus,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Two injured residents, a 25-year-old mother with severe burns and a 2-year-old child with serious injuries, were transported to hospitals, officials said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Feb. 2026
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The organization works with law enforcement and other officials to find missing children, including publishing age-progression images.—
Elise Hammond,
CNN Money,
26 Feb. 2026
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Relatives can give up to $5,000 per year to the accounts, and companies can give their employees and employees' children $2,500.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Feb. 2026
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The Zalando prize money helped Gassanoff pay his rent, keep his one employee and two interns, produce the next collection, and compensate the artisans who made it.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2026
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First, famed filmmaker James Cameron endorsed Paramount, saying a Netflix takeover would lead to massive job losses in the entertainment industry, which is already reeling from a production slowdown in Southern California that has disrupted the lives of thousands of film industry workers.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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The Labor Department published a rule Friday that would undo egregious attempts during the last administration to classify more workers as employees rather than independent contractors.—
Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
28 Feb. 2026
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Education decisions belong with parents, not bureaucrats.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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When Vance attended the annual Munich Security Conference as a first-term senator, in 2024, he got fed up with the European Union bureaucrats and took off early to reconnect with Dreher, who had come from Budapest, over beer and sausages.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20servant. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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