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Recent Examples of gofer
Younger by a year and a half, Rahaman Ali gave up his own boxing career to become a chauffeur, sparring partner, gofer, chef and right-hand man for older brother Muhammad.
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Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Aug. 2025
Vince Calandra, the charismatic Ed Sullivan Show talent booker who graduated from gofer and cue-card guy to bringing such talent as The Beatles, Julie Andrews, Alan King and Jackie Mason to the legendary CBS variety hour, has died.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
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
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Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Aug. 2025
Vince Calandra, the charismatic Ed Sullivan Show talent booker who graduated from gofer and cue-card guy to bringing such talent as The Beatles, Julie Andrews, Alan King and Jackie Mason to the legendary CBS variety hour, has died.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
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Daily calls with Sundar Pichai In 2023, Google made a key change to combine its Google Brain research division with DeepMind, a move that laid the foundation for its success with the company's flagship AI assistant Gemini.—
Arjun Kharpal,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2026
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Aside from Wells’ appointment, the club’s coaching and technical staff remained mostly intact, aside from two outgoing and two incoming assistant coaches.—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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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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Some of the routine tasks given to new hires are drudge work and not a learning experience.—
Justin Hotard,
Fortune,
7 Dec. 2025
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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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Three Cofán—an older man and his two young attendants—were waiting for us on the bank.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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On the car’s main level, there is a spacious bar and lounge area, where attendants can mix cocktails or pour wine, as well as an open viewing platform on the back of the car, ensuring travelers are fully immersed in the journey’s landscapes.—
Jessica Puckett,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Jan. 2026
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The service From the servers in the fine dining restaurants to the folks operating the waterpark rides, from the attendants in the poolside cabanas to the housekeepers, the service is consistently professional but with oodles of gregarious Bahamian warmth.—
Jesse Ashlock,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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King also said in recent years the hospital doubled the number of housekeepers per shift in its emergency department, and also increased the number of its emergency department transporters by 2%.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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