bookkeeper
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bookkeepers
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It led her to send emails that March to Epstein’s bookkeeper, asking why the credit cards she didn’t recognize were showing up on her credit report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
But inevitably you are also a bookkeeper, a shipping clerk, a marketing specialist and a navigator of government regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
His parents, a police officer and a bookkeeper, encouraged his curiosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Richard Kahn, Epstein's accountant and bookkeeper since 2005, had told the mansion's staff to pack two suitcases with the contents of the safe and deliver them to his home, agents wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Debbie, who works as a bookkeeper at a private elementary school, has a mobile, expressive face framed by blond chin-length hair.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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The Panic of 1893 was followed by a boom in corporations and their demand for what we now call white-collar office workers, such as stenographers and bookkeepers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Refugees work as housekeepers, maintenance workers and dishwashers, but also as bookkeepers and marketing assistants.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
Rather, the guidelines ask scientific bookkeepers in each country to quantify levels of a particular activity.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
As Selznick put it, Hollywood had been “grabbed by a little group of bookkeepers and turned into a junk industry.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2020
They were the postal workers and the struggling bookkeepers and the men lying on their couches at home without any job at all.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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