servant
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George Atef, a 38-year-old Egyptian civil servant in Kuwait, said: "What exhausts me most is not knowing when this situation will end -- the waiting itself has become draining."
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Just after midnight on 1 May 1984, civil servant Anthony Littler stepped off a train at East Finchley station and set off down a dark alleyway towards home.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“He was a trailblazer and a public servant in the truest sense of the word.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Jessica Morden, chair of Labour's parliamentary party, told MPs on Friday that Ridley had been the most "extraordinary servant".
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“It’s nice, out of the way. There’s an old servant stairwell, so my landlady doesn’t have to wonder why I return home so late.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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They are usually staffed by lifelong public servants who, in an ideal world, are focused solely on making sure government officials properly use their taxpayer-funded budgets and legal authority.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Career civil servants were assigned there and ran a website on the government's official ".gov.ng" domain.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Every day we welcome students into the Capitol, train teachers from across the country, host conversations with historians and public servants, and encourage visitors to see themselves as part of the American story.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Hotel servants fetched water, blankets, and towels, as her chaperone kept a desperately ill Kate alive that night.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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