Example Sentences

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She posed as a courier, telling the receptionists that the script was requested by an executive.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

Often potential patients can get frustrated when receptionists ask for more information.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

There will be smarter cars, bipedal warehouse androids, roving grocery bots removing unscanned items from bagging areas, and torso-up AI designed to look like seated female receptionists.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2024

Such "welfare jobs," as they are known in China, include roles as receptionists, office administrators, security guards and community workers.

From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2023

He remembered that he had to change shoes and retreated to a comer of the lobby, out of sight of receptionists and guards, to sit on the floor and pull on Eric’s brown Oxfords.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz