How to Use troubleshooter in a Sentence
troubleshooter
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What would work for him would be a roving troubleshooter.
—Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
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His family moved around the Northwest, where his father worked as a troubleshooter for struggling grocery stores.
—Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
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Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2018
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Nor was longtime Nike troubleshooter Howard Slusher, who is said to have made many of the final decisions.
—Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 19 Apr. 2018
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Whether the new stadium planned by Knight and his troubleshooter, Howard Slusher, also can do that, remains to be seen.
—Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 3 June 2018
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The location had two other poll books in use at the time, and a third replacement poll book was delivered by a board troubleshooter, according to the release.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2024
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Howard Slusher, longtime troubleshooter for Nike co-founder Phil Knight, took over as project manager.
—Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 24 Mar. 2018
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He is known as a political troubleshooter who has taken on a variety of roles to try to iron out problems created by other lawmakers.
—Nick Perry, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
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Her father was a troubleshooter for General Motors, and her mother was a homemaker.
—Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
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After leaving the Fed, Volcker took on assignments as a troubleshooter.
—Paul Wiseman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
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Those projectionists, though, were highly skilled engineers and troubleshooters.
—Lane Brown, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
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The September report was not the first time DEM’s troubleshooters flagged payment problems.
—Steve Bousquet, miamiherald, 27 Oct. 2017
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Teams of mechanics and technical troubleshooters were assembled.
—Geoff Manaugh, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
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Not surprisingly, Jaitly was widely seen as Modi’s chief troubleshooter.
—Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 24 Aug. 2019
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And if a troubleshooter can't help, the elections department partners with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to have a deputy sent out.
—Rachel Leingang, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2020
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According to Mehta, the IITs are known for nurturing not engineers but entrepreneurs, technocrats and troubleshooters.
—Pankti Mehta, CNN, 4 June 2017
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People familiar with Wallace’s work have likened him to Ray Donovan, the eponymous shadowy troubleshooter from the Showtime series.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
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The troubleshooters are in-state lineworkers who are part of the company’s regular contingent of workers responding to outages and issues during both storms and non-storm days, according to the company.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2025
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Susan Greenhalgh, a troubleshooter at a nonpartisan election monitoring group, was alarmed.
—Nicole Perlroth, Michael Wines and Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
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On a support page, Microsoft offers a troubleshooter file for download that prevents drivers or updates from being automatically installed.
—Gordon Gottsegen, WIRED, 29 July 2015
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Serve as a technical problem-solver/troubleshooter involving daily telephone contact with the ACO and periodic travel.
—Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2019
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Not all volunteers prepare taxes—additional roles include greeters and screeners, site coordinators, IT troubleshooters, and quality reviewers.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 7 Feb. 2025
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Cast Away tells the story of FedEx troubleshooter Chuck Noland (Hanks) who becomes stranded on a deserted island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
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