gaffer

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Recent Examples of gaffer The only people who accompanied him were his gaffer, his first assistant camera, producer and still photographer; the rest were local hires arranged by production services company Jaguar Bite. Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025 Tarps and blankets can only be placed with painter's, gaffer or masking tapes. Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025 Our crew includes gaffers and key grips whose parents, and even grandparents, were in the industry. Gus Dominguez, IndieWire, 24 Aug. 2025 The bailiff pulled up gaffers tape from the floor and ripped off the white timeline sheets from the easel as Morris remained staring straight ahead. Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gaffer
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Noun
  • Over time, Sufien becomes more mercurial, even wayward, but the complex patriarch is always treated with love.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
  • What father would ever allow such devastation, assuring fellow patriarchs that their lives without sons would be ruined forever?
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Panama’s Jonathan Araúz exchanged shouts and pushes with manager José Mayorga when the pinch hitter returned to the dugout after grounding out leading off the ninth.
    Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • It’s taken Santiago Espinal less than three weeks to make an impression on Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Sixteen years into the experiment, Twitter is a graybeard by internet years and by corporate standards.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Joe Thornton, the Bruins' No. 1 draft pick in 1997, is now an NHL graybeard.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • Baylor skipper Mitch Thompson, who has coached in the state of Texas since 1998, called it the best Texas pitching staff he’s ever seen.
    David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The winning skipper was a retired Marine Corps pilot named Reuben Snodgrass, from Ronkonkoma.
    Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The movie is all about old-timers, and it’s filled with real old-timers.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Age mandates for trees worry some environmentalists Woodlands that are healthy, biodiverse and able to provide food and habitat for myriad species usually have a mix of tree types, from skinny saplings to looming old-timers.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Hoping to lessen the impact on interim and permanent housing as much as possible, the supervisors slashed $27 million from outreach and navigation programs and cut by two-thirds the county program that moves people out of street encampments into shelters.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The alteration was discovered in a copy of the Book of the Dead (a tome filled with spells meant to aid the dead in their passage to the afterlife) that is believed to have been commissioned for a royal archive supervisor named Rambose.
    News Desk, Artforum, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Most oldsters like myself still will probably find revisiting the piece enjoyable.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Those devoted to the Charli cause will no doubt get more out of the film than an out-of-touch oldster like myself ever could.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • About 15 years ago, the Brenkwitzes wholeheartedly embraced the rich history of Folsom, taking over as stewards of the property at 603 Figueroa St.
    David Caraccio March 9, Sacbee.com, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Anne G’Fellers-Mason, who wrote and directed the play, has become a steward of that tradition.
    Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026

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“Gaffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaffer. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.

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