gofer

variants or gopher

Example Sentences

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for gofer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
  • Gone are the days of having your assistant call around to try to get you on a flight.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Bobenmoyer spent seven years as a dental assistant.
    Anna Clark, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 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
  • Offload drudge work and risky tasks so humans can focus on safer, more creative work.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jackson hoped that the exhibition would counter the misconception that medieval women were universally downtrodden drudges.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • In the light rail’s early days, CATS attendants checked tickets frequently enough that people assumed the risk of getting slapped with a fare evasion fee was too high, McCrory said.
    Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Four of the five campsites have flush toilets, hot showers, and camp attendants (from $40 per person, plus a $40 daily park entrance fee per person and a $15 daily vehicle entry fee).
    Mazuba Kapambwe, AFAR Media, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The first glimpse of the movie showed Nina interviewing Millie for a live-in housekeeper job at the family's gorgeous mansion.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Other things to take a look at include light switches and clocks, says Denise Perry, executive housekeeper at the Brenton Hotel in Newport, Rhode Island.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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