staffer

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Recent Examples of staffer Inspired by his focus on gun control, the woman moved to California to join Swalwell’s campaign as a junior staffer. Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2026 Lyonne shushed the staffer, got up and headed to the bathroom, according to Page Six. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026 Venus Molina, who leads her opponents in campaign donations, has worked as a City Hall staffer for more than two decades and has written crucial city legislation like the 2022 street vendor ordinance. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026 LeBron James looked on with his hands on his hips as the exchange continued, before Reaves, who was briefly held back by a staffer, walked away. Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for staffer
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Noun
  • Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital covering critical political and cultural issues in sports, with an investigative lens.
    Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Jeff Vorva is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The attack threw into chaos one of Washington’s premier social events, which every year attracts some of the country’s most powerful people and the journalists who cover them.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Independent journalist Francys Romero first reported the decision to bring up Domínguez.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Two correspondents sent Lemisch the identical sanitary disposal bags, printed with the Liberty Bell, that had suddenly appeared in the women’s bathroom in their campus library.
    New York Times, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • The Manhattan apartment of CBS News special correspondent Anthony Mason could serve as an annex to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • 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, 16 Apr. 2026
  • My introduction to soccer came while covering the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the old North American Soccer League as a young sportswriter in the 1970s when the Brazilian star Pelé — still the only player to win three World Cups — played for the New York Cosmos.
    John Meyer, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The other journalist was identified by Lebanese authorities as Zeinab Faraj, a freelance photojournalist.
    Charbel Mallo, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Included this year are artist Cao Fei and photojournalist Lynsey Addario.
    Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Third-stringer Luka Garza also saw first-quarter action, with Mazzulla initially deploying Vucevic against Embiid and Garza against veteran backup Andre Drummond.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Simmons did not mention Clayton Dees, who is believed to be the fourth-stringer.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 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
  • Persons thus satirized included presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon, as well as newsmen Dan Rather and Ted Koppel.
    Carmel Dagan, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Amy Madigan, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Sunday night, is the daughter of a newsman who helped shape CBS Chicago in the 1960s.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026

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

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