servant
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"South African football has lost a gifted player, a proud servant of the game and a young life that still had so much to offer."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Sunhyeji is paired with Minho, a 32-year-old mild-mannered civil servant.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“I’ve been cast as both a scofflaw and a hero. I am neither. I am a public servant who was just trying to do my job,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
"I had gone to bed a bit late, but the air-raid sirens woke me up, leaving me feeling anxious," said Nawal Saad, a Bahraini civil servant in her forties.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
I guess there’s no value in a servant who has turned on his master.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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
How did an organisation with government offices, civil servants and a line in Nigeria's national budget turn out to have no legal basis for existing?
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
Once at Mount Vernon, Frank and Billy Lee settled into the world of house servants.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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