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accountant

[uh-koun-tnt] / əˈkaʊn tnt /


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Ivan Lamptey, an accountant in Sacramento, Calif., leaves home at 5 a.m. five days a week to drive about 120 miles each way to work in Fremont, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Ma is a certified public accountant serving as state treasurer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

These utilization challenges are important for you — after all, you don’t want to end up with a shock tax bill and a lingering resentment against your adviser or accountant.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Michelle Collins, an accountant who works downtown, said it doesn’t make sense someone would remove their trousers at town hall to clean them off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

He was too polite to say it—that he may already be my accountant, or rather my accountant’s accountant, thanks to the explosion in the outsourcing of tax preparation.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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