responder

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Recent Examples of responder The project was developed with members of 9/11 victims' families, survivors and responder communities, including the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Station, fire responder contract The budget also comes as Hialeah’s firefighters remain without a new contract. Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026 Miller is advocating for updating the cancer screening policy to make available the very latest and most comprehensive cancer screening to the 9/11 responder community. ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026 These voice-video systems have cameras that detect whether a person can hear an emergency responder. Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 7 Sep. 2026 The call ends abruptly, but the responder sends police officers to the woman’s location. Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026 Still, co-responder teams have been found to reduce emergency-room trips. Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 Requests to the models were blocked by providers' safety guardrails, which couldn't determine the incident responder from the attacker. Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 24 July 2026 Toward the back, the walls filled with displays of patches from first-responder agencies worldwide — and in the seats beneath those patches, often, sat police and firefighters, whose company Fanara prized. Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for responder
Noun
  • One replier even proposed taking women to the city dump to shoot rats.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The average survey respondent projects a significant boost in productivity and economic growth but also a substantial disruption to workers in AI-sensitive fields.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The census, which is administered every 10 years and is next set for 2030, is also considering asking about each respondent’s citizenship, a departure from past practice, which could discourage the participation of immigrants.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Responder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/responder. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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