gaffer

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Recent Examples of gaffer With Vermes now out at Kansas City, there only two who currently occupy that dual role: San Jose Earthquakes boss Bruce Arena, and Chicago Fire gaffer Gregg Berhalter. Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025 But the Colorado gaffer was not alone in shrinking in the moment. Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 One lady was a stage manager, another read lines with actors, someone else was a gaffer. Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2025 That belief is all down to the gaffer. Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gaffer
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Noun
  • Rupert Murdoch, 94, patriarch of the News Corp empire, last year lost a legal battle over control of his media businesses, including Fox News.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 19 June 2025
  • But although these primate patriarchs don’t nurse young or gather food (or provide any other essential care), a new study suggests their presence does have a beneficial impact.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • City officials credit the improvement to a consortium of managers, emergency workers and labor leaders and to changes in how city ambulances are dispatched.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2025
  • This is Montgomery's first time as an MLB manager in his coaching career.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The boss man certainly has a soft spot for the graybeard – and Whitworth literally has a graying beard – who's been so exceptional over the years while protecting quarterbacks Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford, which is only a small part of what he's meant to the Rams.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Immediately, four dogs bound out of a modest pine log cabin, barking their fool heads off; there's George, a fluffy Newfoundland with a graybeard's tired face; Bunny, an Old English sheepdog; and Shih Tzus Clementine and Bear, the latter of whom cannot and will not be befriended.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2021
Noun
  • As the skipper of a 2024 pennant-winner, Boone has the honor of managing the American League in this year’s All-Star Game.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
  • Register at skippers meeting at 10 a.m. July 4 at the yacht club, 1950 Harbor Drive North.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • More deals may or may not emerge – old-timer Mediacom is still operating independently - but none may ever again represent a real realignment in the cable world.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • That puts him in league with ornery old-timers being refused entry into supermarkets, where customers queue outside, standing six feet apart.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • The agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the union membership and the supervisors, includes a $5,000 bonus in the first year, followed by a 2% cost of living adjustment and $2,000 bonus in the second year and a 5% salary increase the third year.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • After an unseasonably warm winter, for example, when temperatures in the Czech countryside failed to drop below zero, Arrowsmith, SFX supervisor Ondrej Nierostek and their team had no choice but to build their own frozen lake from scratch.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Who among us oldsters doesn’t enjoy a good VFX-costume parlay?
    Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Folks back in the day had Yoda as their feisty oldster and the kids now have Maz. 36.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
Noun
  • Producers include longtime franchise stewards Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, with Spielberg and Denis Stewart exec producing.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
  • It’s meant to thrill, not replicate a steward’s report.
    Kanzah Maktoum, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025

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“Gaffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaffer. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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