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as in registrar
an official whose job is to keep records
you'll need to get a copy of your birth certificate from the office of the town clerk
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as in salesman
a person employed to sell goods or services especially in a store
the clerk suggested a different brand
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as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
the clerks in the rural parishes were for the most part sons of merchants
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Recent Examples of clerk
Black said his research found older judges rely more on their clerks - and might need more support from colleagues.
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Carrie Johnson, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026
Attorneys for Fulton County, Georgia, argued in federal court Friday that an FBI agent who filed an affidavit in support of a search warrant of the county clerk's office for 2020 election ballots omitted information about the election and how it was conducted in the county.
—Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
While Marie was incarcerated at Bryan, working in the education department as a clerk, her boss, Donald Ross, often sent her to a storage closet in the testing room to organize supplies.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
López-Owens said the clerk should have a larger public presence to boost voter turnout, after Marion County's voting rates lagged in the 2024 general election.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 26 Mar. 2026
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Carrie Johnson, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026
Attorneys for Fulton County, Georgia, argued in federal court Friday that an FBI agent who filed an affidavit in support of a search warrant of the county clerk's office for 2020 election ballots omitted information about the election and how it was conducted in the county.
—Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
While Marie was incarcerated at Bryan, working in the education department as a clerk, her boss, Donald Ross, often sent her to a storage closet in the testing room to organize supplies.
—Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
López-Owens said the clerk should have a larger public presence to boost voter turnout, after Marion County's voting rates lagged in the 2024 general election.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clerk
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The county registrar of voters would be the front line standing next to him.—
Laurie Perez,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Art Tinoco, the Riverside County registrar of voters, has refuted that number — saying it was based on a misunderstanding of raw data that had not been fully processed.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Carrying $14 and two shirts — one of which was far too big for him, his daughter said — Jarad connected with a contact person in Manhattan and began working as a door-to-door salesman in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
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Related Stories Henry Rinnan, an ordinary family man and unremarkable salesman, becomes the Gestapo’s most valuable Norwegian agent.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2026
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The concierge specializes in Kyoto’s cultural events, and can help access exclusive ochaya with an interpreter, score tickets to the theater, book dinner reservations, a huge help in Kyoto, or help arrange meetings with monks and priests at the city’s Shinto shrines and temples.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Apr. 2026
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Nonbinary people have often occupied unique positions in their societies, serving as priests, artists, and ceremonial leaders.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The meeting started with more than an hour of comments from the public, before the board voted to appoint Pete Geren as its president, Courtney Lewis as its vice president and Rosa Maria Berdeja as its secretary.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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The probe is focused on Councilmember Farah Louis and Debbie Louis, who serves as the governor's assistant secretary of New York City governmental affairs.—
CBS New York Team,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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His father, much older than his mom, was a preacher who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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Moreover, as soon as Christianity began to spread outside his native land, Christian converts faced new situations in unexpected contexts, completely different from those of their founder, an itinerant Jewish preacher in the sparsely populated hinterlands of rural Galilee.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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Amid an ongoing court battle over clergy access to the west suburban ICE facility, Catholic ministers entered the building and, in the traditional Holy Thursday ritual, washed the feet of 14 detainees.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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On Friday, Khalid Aleisir, the minister of culture, information, antiquities and Tourism condemned the attack and called for designating the RSF a terrorist organization and prosecuting its members.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The pompous clergyman enters the life of the Bennet family, his distant cousins, with the assumption that, given his respectable position and benefactor, Lady Catherine De Bourgh, one of those daughters would be happy to marry him.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Garage owner and keen early automobilist Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan, the son of a rural English clergyman, built his first car, an eponymous prototype, in 1909.—
Jamie Kitman,
Air Mail,
21 Feb. 2026
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In 2010 then-primate Nicholas Okoh endorsed the ordination of women as deacons, though only in limited forms of ministry such as service in hospitals or schools.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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Still, Jos Valke, a deacon at the church of Wolder in Maaschtrict, described their shock at the discovery.—
Eleanor Beardsley,
NPR,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Clerk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clerk. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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