How to Use gofer in a Sentence
gofer
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Budenholzer credits his success to his first NBA job as Popovich’s gofer in the film room.
—Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2021
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Pitt plays Cliff Booth, Rick’s longtime stunt double, gofer and drinking buddy.
—Samantha Miller, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
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Nauta frequently served as a kind of gofer, fetching any items the president might need throughout the day and tidying up the room, the former staffer said.
—Shane Harris, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
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By the age of 18, Birkin had already worked on a couple of U.K.-based pictures as a tea boy/gofer, but could rise no further without a union membership or guild card.
—Andrew Birkin, Variety, 17 Mar. 2022
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As Manny Torres in Babylon, Calva plays an ambitious gofer with dreams of being part of the movie-making world.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
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With broad fix-it knowledge learned at his dad’s side and from years earning spare bucks as a gofer at construction sites, Mr. Mustaciuolo has hands-on technical knowledge.
—Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
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Walt Nauta, a cook and military valet in the Trump White House who is now employed as an all-purpose gofer for the former president and who ushered the group to the table before leaving them alone to talk.
—Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
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Since the game takes place in a corporate hellscape, many of the missions and side missions involve going to a place, talking to that place’s leader, and convincing said leader to do something through a series of red-tape gofer quests.
—EW.com, 22 Oct. 2019
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Thomas Middleditch, who needs someone to explain to him the dangers of overexposure, plays his usual bumbling character, a gofer for Steve who also narrates the tale.
—Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 June 2017
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When the film school rejections arrived, Spielberg had the previous summer begun his life as a fast-rising unpaid gofer at Universal Pictures.
—Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
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McCarthy climbed the political ladder from volunteer gofer for a hometown congressman to U.S. House leadership by building relationships and compromising.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
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