gofer

variants or gopher

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Recent Examples of gofer The 360-acre preserve adjacent to the LEC and Deltona Regional Library is home to a variety of wildlife, including Florida scrub jays and gopher tortoises, which are drawn to the low vegetation and sandy ridges of the scrub habitat. Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 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 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 See All Example Sentences for gofer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
  • So for example Joule, our digital assistant, cannot mess around with compliance checks on travel and on sourcing, or on directing the flow of materials.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The tech giant has emphasized its Alexa voice assistant as an enhancement to audio ad campaigns.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Mercedes is everybody’s dogsbody, at home and at work.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Sophie Monks Kaufman is a writer, film-industry factotum and mixed bag of expressive impulses based in London.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Jackson hoped that the exhibition would counter the misconception that medieval women were universally downtrodden drudges.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The attendant gave us vouchers for complimentary drinks at the lobby bar.
    John Vorwald, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2025
  • One of those workers, Trump said, was Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein accuser who said she was recruited by his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, when Giuffre was an underage teenager working as a locker-room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • Increases in the most in-demand roles such as front desk associates, housekeepers and cooks were flat or grew slightly year-over-year.
    Doyinsola Oladipo, USA Today, 21 July 2025
  • From the twins and their parents to evil fiancées and housekeepers, the characters have gained a cult following since their release, with some fans using them as inspiration for their outfits, summer mood boards, and interior design.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2025

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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.

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