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clerical

[kler-i-kuhl] / ˈklɛr ɪ kəl /




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Imagine Beto O’Rourke with a clerical collar and capacity to mint money.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Regulators in both the U.S. and U.K. require that anyone engaged in investment banking pass exams and be licensed to work on sensitive, multibillion-dollar transactions, with limited exceptions for clerical work.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Elsewhere, a mural traces a line of clerical leadership in Iran.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Whether the tweet was a confession or a clerical error, travel experts say the advice on how to avoid surprise price jumps is a relic of a simpler internet.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

About 90 percent of the tablets in the earliest known Sumerian archives, from the city of Uruk, are clerical records of goods paid in, workers given rations, and agricultural products distributed.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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