staffer

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Recent Examples of staffer If a staffer tests positive for COVID-19, the facility must immediately cease all visitation in the event that the person was on the premises in the 10 days prior to the positive test. Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025 Porter was seen as the second strongest Democrat, but has recently faced backlash over a viral video showing her berating and cursing at a staffer, and another clip of her angrily leaving an interview when pressed by a journalist. Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025 Outside reached out to Arches National Park’s public information officer, but a voice message said that the staffer was not allowed to work during the shutdown. Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Nov. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for staffer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staffer
Noun
  • Ask The Post’s journalists Our reporters and editors answer your questions.
    Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Cooper told reporters in the press room after his win.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Ask The Post’s journalists Our reporters and editors answer your questions.
    Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Iranian state television on Sunday morning took a page from demonstrators, having their correspondents appear on streets in several cities to show calm areas with a date stamp shown on screen.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The figures would have been difficult to interpret, anyway, because the large revisions to earlier months meant that the actually new numbers could not be cleanly isolated to show what happened in December alone, Nick Timaraos, the Wall Street Journal’s chief economics correspondent, noted.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Then, a few minutes later, a sportswriter from The Oregonian picked up the ball again.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • In 2025, Mike Finger of the San Antonio News-Express won the sportswriter's prize.
    Tyler J. Davis, Austin American Statesman, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Nate Sylves, a photojournalist with CBS News Philadelphia, and his wife, Liz, were scheduled to fly home on Saturday following a weeklong cruise.
    Eva Andersen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • And a photojournalist is thrown to the floor, then carried out on a stretcher.
    Leonard Pitts Jr, Miami Herald, 1 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • With Jayden Daniels shut down and Marcus Mariota dealing with a leg injury, the Commanders (5-12) started Johnson, their 39-year-old third-stringer.
    CBS News, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • And now San Francisco is likely down its two starting linebackers (one of which is already a second-stringer), on top of all the team’s other season-defining injuries.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 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
  • The disarmingly handsome comic adopted the delivery of a smarmy newsman and deadpanned a joke about the hatching of a baby sandpiper, a triumph for the zoo where it was born, until the bird was stomped to death by a baby hippo born a day earlier.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The newsman is all in, talking the talk and walking the walk so that every Melvin Made candle is up to par.
    Alex Ross, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025

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“Staffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staffer. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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