stenographer
noun
ste·nog·ra·pher
stə-ˈnä-grə-fər 
1
: a writer of shorthand
2
: a person employed chiefly to take and transcribe dictation
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But that hasn’t stopped liberals and their media stenographers from praying that oil markets collapse amid the U.S.-Israel strikes against the Shia Islamic theocracy and its fledgling nuclear program.
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Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
For her part, Weiss has already proven to be a happy stenographer for the White House, pulling a bombshell segment from 60 Minutes that painted the administration in a bad light.
—Joe Wilkins Published Mar 11, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
The stenographer then read Zambrano’s question aloud a second time.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026
Universal History Archive/Getty Images Bell and Tainter believed the Graphophone would find greatest use as a mechanical stenographer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
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Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
For her part, Weiss has already proven to be a happy stenographer for the White House, pulling a bombshell segment from 60 Minutes that painted the administration in a bad light.
—Joe Wilkins Published Mar 11, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
The stenographer then read Zambrano’s question aloud a second time.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026
Universal History Archive/Getty Images Bell and Tainter believed the Graphophone would find greatest use as a mechanical stenographer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
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stenographer
noun
ste·nog·ra·pher
stə-ˈnäg-rə-fər
1
: a writer of shorthand
2
: one employed chiefly to take and make a copy of dictation
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