spokesperson
Americannoun
Gender
See -person.
Etymology
Origin of spokesperson
First recorded in 1970–75; spokes(man) + -person
Vocabulary lists containing spokesperson
Media Literacy - Middle School
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Conventions, Writing, and Speaking & Listening, Unit 3
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Example Sentences
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“There’s a lot of unknowns,” said Sasha Travaglio, a spokesperson for the Santa Rosa Island fire Burned Area Emergency Response team, which includes a hydrologist, a soil scientist, an archaeologist, a paleontologist and a botanist.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Renée Saldaña, a spokesperson for SEIU-UHW, characterized the lawsuit against the initiative as “a really desperate attempt by the clinic industry to try and avoid accountability.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's spokesperson called the women's accounts "harrowing".
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
“Alibaba is not a Chinese military company nor part of any military-civil fusion strategy. We will take all available legal action against attempts to misrepresent our company,” a company spokesperson said.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
“How would you like to be the spokesperson for this center?” he asked me.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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