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or gopher
as in assistant
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While gopher tortoises can be encountered in abundance during a visit to the park, guests can also marvel at its longleaf pine forests, with bird species like the downy woodpecker and red-breasted nuthatch found flitting from tree to tree.
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Seminole State Park Just north of the Florida Panhandle, Seminole State Park offers an opportunity to spot one of the South’s most intriguing reptiles—the gopher tortoise.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Keep an eye out for rare species like the American kestrel, gopher tortoise, and the flatwoods salamander.
—Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
As a threatened species, gopher tortoises are called a keystone species because hundreds of other animals depend on them for their burrows.
—Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Seminole State Park Just north of the Florida Panhandle, Seminole State Park offers an opportunity to spot one of the South’s most intriguing reptiles—the gopher tortoise.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Keep an eye out for rare species like the American kestrel, gopher tortoise, and the flatwoods salamander.
—Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
As a threatened species, gopher tortoises are called a keystone species because hundreds of other animals depend on them for their burrows.
—Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
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Amazon ramped up its participation in the generative AI arms race with the release of the Amazon Echo smart speaker in 2014, its first product to include its virtual assistant Alexa.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
17 June 2025
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The previous three were Chavez; Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who bought Perry ketamine; and Perry’s friend and dealer Erik Fleming.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
17 June 2025
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Having progressed from bottle washing and being a general dogsbody to a youth strength and conditioning coach, Bunce served as Southampton’s head of athletic development between 2011 and 2014, working closely with youngsters such as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Luke Shaw.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
17 Dec. 2024
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Mercedes is everybody’s dogsbody, at home and at work.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 Sep. 2024
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But the ringer is Michael Cera, as Norwegian tutor Bjørn Lund, employed as an all-purpose factotum by the shady, swaggering, death-defying entrepreneur played by Del Toro.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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Sophie Monks Kaufman is a writer, film-industry factotum and mixed bag of expressive impulses based in London.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
14 Jan. 2025
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The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.—
Iain Martin,
Forbes,
4 Feb. 2025
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In Wertheimer’s painting, Agrippina’s friend and attendant Acerronia Polla clings to her for dear life as the opulent ship built to fall apart is doing its dirty work.—
Diana Arterian
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Each vehicle can transport 10 passengers, with an onboard attendant present.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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During the hotel's Global Wellness Day, therapists give on-site massages to housekeepers and front-desk staff.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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The lawsuit said Robinson harassed and assaulted his former housekeepers who worked at his Chatsworth home between 2006 and 2024.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2025
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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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