gaffers

plural of gaffer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaffers
Noun
  • This is especially appealing to syndicators, fund managers, and portfolio builders who want unified management across multiple markets.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Vouchers would be renewable for up to six months, but would be contingent on participants engaging with case managers.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Popes and Orthodox patriarchs honor him, and Pärt’s music has received the highest levels of recognition, including Grammy Awards.
    Jeffers Engelhardt, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Leo drew attention to a joint statement by the Latin and Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Jerusalem, who announced that the priests and nuns in the two Christian churches in Gaza City would stay put, despite Israeli evacuation orders ahead of the Gaza City offensive.
    Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Investigation remains in local hands Yolo County supervisors, Reisig and Sheriff Tom Lopez asked the state Department of Justice to intervene in the Esparto investigation, and any associated criminal prosecutions.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Start gathering references now, including supervisors from your internships who can speak to your work quality and potential.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Here are more Denver old-timers preserving the city’s culinary and cultural past while inching toward the future, in alphabetical order.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Inside, the multi-generational crowd united old-timers, who may well have been at some of the Dead’s first Golden Gate Park gigs decades ago with kids and young adults catching live Grateful Dead music for the first time.
    Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Anastasios Kamoutsas, Florida Commissioner of Education, sent a warning to teachers and superintendents in the Sunshine State, on the heels of Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk's assassination on Wednesday.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Coming up on a half year into the job, Cassellius is pushing hard, tackling some of the big issues that face the state’s largest and most troubled school district, talking to lots of people in lots of places, including some that MPS superintendents haven’t visited often.
    Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Your ability to move with or without ease comes down to muscle mass, range of motion, flexibility, and energy levels, according to Richard Dupee, MD, chief of geriatrics at Tufts Medical Center.
    Sydney Wingfield, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
  • It also was listed in the top 50 in cancer, cardiology and vascular surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, geriatrics, urology, and neurology and neurosurgery.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Obama said at the time that the project did not intend to displace residents, adding that its overseers are trying to balance boosting jobs and economic development in the area while maintaining and protecting existing affordable housing.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • A number of government overseers have also documented problems with postal service customer experience, including the postal service’s Office of Inspector General.
    Dan Gingiss, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Bamboo basket boats swirl through the Bay Mau nipa palm forest—their skippers casting nets in the shade of swaying fronds.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Plants bloom throughout most of the year, attracting a diversity of skippers and butterflies, including Queens and the endangered Miami blue butterfly.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Gaffers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaffers. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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