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staffer

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Recent Examples of staffer Turetsky, the former city budget office staffer, says that Mamdani’s housing reforms, if enacted, will face fierce pushback from the real estate industry. Connor Greene, Time, 5 Nov. 2025 The series chronicles the decades-long relationship between Bailey’s bright-eyed and idealistic young congressional staffer Tim and Matt Bomer’s stern State Department official, Hawk. Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Nov. 2025 Two weeks later, a man facing the death penalty for shooting a police officer stabbed a staffer. Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 4 Nov. 2025 In the past five years Bailey has captured hearts as Lord Anthony on Bridgerton and earned an Emmy nomination for his role as a closeted congressional staffer in the Showtime series Fellow Travelers. Julie Jordan, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for staffer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staffer
Noun
  • Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw told reporters after the game about the decision to honor Vesia.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Guardiola, speaking to reporters before City’s 4-1 victory over Dortmund, sounded like a manager who takes Arsenal deadly seriously.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Former City Councilmember Ruth Herbel and former Record journalist Phyllis Zorn are in line to receive $650,000 apiece, and another former Record journalist, Deb Gruver, will get $250,000.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2025
  • New Delhi provided diplomatic protection to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an elite Bangladeshi counterterrorism force that targeted opposition politicians, activists, and journalists.
    MUHIB RAHMAN, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The comment — which instantly became prime-time cable fodder — came in the middle of a meandering and misleading response to a question from Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Efrat Lachter is an investigative reporter and war correspondent.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But the great Uruguayan historian, novelist, and sportswriter had more to add.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • See some of the commonwealth's best runners in this photo gallery from Courier Journal photojournalist Jeff Faughender.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Hassouna, a Palestinian photojournalist and artist, was killed alongside 10 family members in an Israeli airstrike in April.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The third-stringer, a freshman, just suffered a concussion.
    Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That’s because the defense has given up more than 200 yards to a backup running back, nearly 150 to a third-stringer and three touchdowns to a rookie.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
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
  • Past residents have included actress and socialite Kitty Carlisle Hart, Truman Capote swan Slim Keith, newsman Mike Wallace, and, more recently, former CNN president Jeffrey Zucker.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Bartleby, to be sure, often works at home as do most newsmen.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Staffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staffer. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.

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