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government worker

NOUN
civil servant
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"It's wonderful. Of course it's going to be a huge help given the situation we're facing in our country," Miriam Joseph, a 65-year-old government worker in Havana, told AFP.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

There was a rodeo announcer from Idaho, a Kansan whose family owns a dairy farm, and a retired government worker who auctioned spectrum for the Federal Communications Commission.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 28, 2025

A government worker in Camarines said that the people had “not recovered from the previous storms when the super typhoon hit.”

From NewsForKids.net Nov. 19, 2024

Zulkibli, 56, a government worker who built his giant birdhouse in the village of Perapakan in 2010, supplements his income by harvesting the swiftlets’ nests and selling them for export to China.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2024

A government worker helping to produce engines that would send supplies and immigrants and tourists to the U.S.

From The Odyssey of Sam Meecham by Fritch, Charles E.




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