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clerical

[kler-i-kuhl] / ˈklɛr ɪ kəl /




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Those unions represent school police, school clerical workers and custodial and cafeteria supervisors, among others.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Survival has always been the clerical regime’s primary objective.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Yossi Mekelberg, a Middle East expert at London-based think-tank Chatham House, said that Iran's ballistic missile capabilities had undoubtedly been diminished compared to before the war, but its clerical leadership remained intact.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Others believed they would be doing clerical work or computer programming.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

About 90 percent of the tablets in the earliest known Sumerian archives, from the city of Uruk, are clerical records of goods paid in, workers given rations, and agricultural products distributed.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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