staffer
Americannoun
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a member of a staff of employees or coworkers.
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Journalism. an editorial employee, especially a writer.
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California has served as the division’s laboratory for all of these changes, or, as one former civil rights staffer put it, its “punching bag.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Jordan Wood, a former congressional staffer, first ran for Senate, then for the House, and is now back in the Senate race.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026
"It's like the 30th person," said an event staffer.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
In 1981, Esquire magazine ran a story written by onetime UPI photo staffer Stanley P. Friedman about the most-requested pictures that never actually existed: A shot of the foundering Titanic in 1912.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
A kitchen staffer stuck her head out over the conveyor belt and called: “Trays!”
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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