staffer

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Recent Examples of staffer An internal government watchdog and members of Congress are separately investigating new allegations of Social Security data misuse by a Department of Government Efficiency staffer. Brittney Melton, NPR, 12 Mar. 2026 This staffer has been turned on to Teo Wise, a whimsical Italian singer-songwriter. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Mar. 2026 Moore is the defendant in a criminal case after he was arrested shortly after being fired due to an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Mar. 2026 The congressman, a father of six, has been publicly accused by the husband of his late ex-staffer, Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, of engaging in the affair. Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for staffer
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Noun
  • Trump spent just under two hours on the ground and didn't speak to reporters leaving Air Force One or returning to it.
    DARLENE SUPERVILLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Plohetski was the lead reporter for the Statesman’s groundbreaking coverage of the 2022 Uvalde school shooting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for public service.
    Tony Plohetski, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2026
  • No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Sometimes the culprit is the observer—the propagandizing correspondent, the mythologizing historian.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The in-depth investigation by Mediapart correspondent Marine Turchi, who has investigated several high-profile MeToo cases in France, covers accusations from another six women whose paths crossed Bruel in the cinema, music and tennis worlds as well as luxury spas.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That take seems unduly alarmist said David Goldblatt, a British sportswriter and sociologist who is a visiting professor at Pitzer College in Claremont.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Based on Carl Hiaasen’s 1987 crime novel, Double Whammy, the new ABC procedural stars Scott Speedman as the title character, a photojournalist turned private investigator solving weird and twisty cases in Fort Lauderdale.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Surveillance of Immigrants Olga Fedorova is a freelance photojournalist who was working in Minneapolis during the height of the immigration crackdown earlier this year.
    Meg Anderson, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Simmons did not mention Clayton Dees, who is believed to be the fourth-stringer.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Both have been among the Celtics’ most important players this season, with Brown posting career-best numbers in Tatum’s absence and Queta, a fourth-stringer last season, emerging as a valuable starting center.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 2 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
  • Longtime newsman Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time on March 6, 1981, from the CBS Evening News.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Attempts by newsmen to get word from the Complex 34 blockhouse proved fruitless as pad personnel declined to supply information or page public information officials.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026

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“Staffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staffer. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.

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