bookkeeper
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It led her to send emails that March to Epstein’s bookkeeper, asking why the credit cards she didn’t recognize were showing up on her credit report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Rowley struggled to find work as a bookkeeper because so many locations triggered her allergies.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Gustav works as a bookkeeper for Julia’s father and is never entirely happy with his station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Tony Gene Broxton, a former fire department bookkeeper from the Florida Panhandle, was indicted in 2013 on federal charges of theft of public money and making false statements.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
Kathy was the business’s secretary, bookkeeper, credit department, public-relations manager—she did everything in the office, while her husband handled the building and painting.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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The Panic of 1893 was followed by a boom in corporations and their demand for what we now call white-collar office workers, such as stenographers and bookkeepers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Refugees work as housekeepers, maintenance workers and dishwashers, but also as bookkeepers and marketing assistants.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
Rather, the guidelines ask scientific bookkeepers in each country to quantify levels of a particular activity.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
As Selznick put it, Hollywood had been “grabbed by a little group of bookkeepers and turned into a junk industry.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2020
They were the postal workers and the struggling bookkeepers and the men lying on their couches at home without any job at all.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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