staffer

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Recent Examples of staffer The Social Security Administration had testimony in hand that on March 3 a DOGE staffer at the Social Security Administration emailed a file believed to contain names and addresses of 1,000 individuals to a senior DOGE official outside SSA. Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026 A number of other cases are featured in the doc, including that of Brittany Higgins, a onetime junior staffer who came out in the press that she was raped by a fellow political staffer in Australia’s Parliament House. Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026 Moore faces criminal charges for allegedly confronting the staffer following his firing. Austin Meek, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026 Robby isn’t the only ER staffer at a crossroads. Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for staffer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staffer
Noun
  • While speaking to reporters later Wednesday, Powell was asked if the Fed had responded to the subpoenas.
    Dan Mangan,Eamon Javers, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Indianapolis weather radar Karl Schneider is an IndyStar environment reporter.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Strandjord pointed to mounting cases in which US citizens have been detained while protesting or exercising First Amendment rights, including the rights of journalists.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 2 Feb. 2026
  • In an email to Semafor, New York Post Media Group Editor-in-Chief Keith Poole argued that Newsom simply isn’t used to receiving the kind of scrutiny that the Post brings to the targets of its coverage, and said that many California readers were already cheering on the paper’s journalists.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • On the international desk, some editors have told correspondents not to accept some assignments that would take them to dangerous spots abroad after Sunday, according to three Post journalists with direct knowledge of events.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Efrat Lachter is an investigative reporter and war correspondent.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • As the calendar approached September, sportswriter Jerry Magee — a legend even in those days — was returning to The San Diego Union’s offices in Mission Valley after spending the day at Chargers headquarters.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Richard Dunn, a longtime sportswriter, writes the Dunn Deal column regularly for The Orange County Register’s weekly, The Coastal Current North.
    Richard Dunn, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Mikala is a staff photojournalist at The Austin American-Statesman in Austin, Texas.
    Mikala Compton, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Not so the 58th victim, a photojournalist nicknamed Bebot.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Sanders began the season as a third-stringer but eventually became the Browns’ QB1.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Stidham instead began the 2020 season as a third-stringer behind Newton and Brian Hoyer.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • One spring day, Tan’s critical gaze landed on the work of freelance journalist Gil Duran, a tech-industry muckraker with a background in Democratic politics who was starting to take very seriously the right-wing political ambitions of San Francisco tech moguls.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Attempts by newsmen to get word from the Complex 34 blockhouse proved fruitless as pad personnel declined to supply information or page public information officials.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Tony Dokoupil wants to be a newsman for the average American.
    Laura Wagner, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2026

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“Staffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staffer. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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