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Recent Examples of gofer
Detailing his gofer duties today to the court, Kaplan is known to have left Combs’ employ after a year, in some part due to the violence he is said to have seen.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 May 2025
James also worked as a gofer on the Harry Potter sets, as well as on the set of The Da Vinci Code (2006).
—Julia Emmanuele, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Take his role in Nickel Boys as a seemingly harmless gofer who turns out to be capable of shocking violence.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
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.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 May 2025
James also worked as a gofer on the Harry Potter sets, as well as on the set of The Da Vinci Code (2006).
—Julia Emmanuele, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Take his role in Nickel Boys as a seemingly harmless gofer who turns out to be capable of shocking violence.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
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.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
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Financial advisory and consultancy Deloitte has inked a deal to bring the AI assistant Claude to the firm's more than 470,000 employees globally, a rollout that CNBC reports is the largest-ever enterprise deployment for the AI startup.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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So many Steves… A freak occurrence at Blackpool, where Steve Bruce was sacked as head coach, along with assistant Steve Agnew and coach Stephen Clemence.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Offload drudge work and risky tasks so humans can focus on safer, more creative work.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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Jackson hoped that the exhibition would counter the misconception that medieval women were universally downtrodden drudges.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Linda hustles the two of them to a nearby motel whose only employees are a surly young goth attendant (a glowering Ivy Wolk) and a sympathetic, mildly flirty super (A$AP Rocky, laidback and breezy).—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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There, she is repeatedly scolded, first by a testy parking attendant (Mark Stolzenberg), and then by a doctor (Bronstein), who warns Linda of consequences if her daughter doesn’t soon reach her target weight of fifty pounds.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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Their three children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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In one case, a hospital employee worked her way up from housekeeper to registrar to quality analyst.—
Rae Ellen Bichell,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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