clerk
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His first job was as a wages clerk for a bus company.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Park advocates originally planned to ask L.A. voters to approve a sales tax hike, going so far as to submit the initial paperwork to the city clerk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"I am writing to inform the parties that Justice Alito has determined that he will not continue to participate in this case," the clerk said, without stating a reason.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
It was nothing fancy; we played at a public court in Washington, and a clerk drove the group—usually me that year, in my wife’s Nissan Maxima.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
She tells the clerk to add it to her bill, and I don’t stop smiling all the way home.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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The position involves overseeing and training attorneys, as well as law clerks and summer interns, on misdemeanor and felony case preparation and trial strategy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
In a recent study, my colleagues and I compared the occupations most exposed to AI—software developers, financial clerks, administrative assistants—with those least exposed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Most of the examples he cited—which also included judicial opinions drafted by clerks and CEO shareholder letters written by the communications department—didn’t involve appropriation of others’ words, only purchasing the service of producing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Also, at five of nine mail processing facilities studied, retail clerks who were postmarking ballots by hand sometimes used stamps with inaccurate dates, according to the report.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Using Therbligs, Dad had shown Regal Shoe Company clerks how they could take a customer’s shoe off in seven seconds, and put it back on again and lace it up in twenty-two seconds.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 4
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"Glencoe Accounting: Real-World Applications & Connections," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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