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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

Kenneth Mejia, 35, is a certified public accountant who lives in Westlake.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

However, Fatone notes that, in hindsight, his accountant was likely unaware that his regular stream of income was about to be shut off, almost overnight.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

His accountant father never showed any interest, he said, but his schoolteacher mother, Ella, “read it all,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Jutta’s husband, Albert, is a kind, slow-moving, and balding accountant whose great passion is running model trains in the basement.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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