How to Use stenographer in a Sentence
stenographer
noun-
Clarke had worked as a stenographer for the Health Ministry.
— Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022 -
Yet this was still the age of the button, and so the crew at work resembled a team of court stenographers.
— Laurence Scott, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020 -
The 14 reporters in the White House briefing room all wore masks, as did the photographers and the White House stenographer.
— Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020 -
His mother, who struggled with poor mental health, worked as a stenographer and at other jobs to pay the bills.
— New York Times, 17 Jan. 2022 -
The Democratic senators filed in one at a time, spoke for an hour to the rotating crew of stenographers and left.
— Charles Homans, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017 -
His mother was a stenographer and journalist who later worked as the bookkeeper and cashier at the store.
— New York Times, 22 Dec. 2020 -
The stenographers charged 75 cents a page to 18 news organizations that bought the transcripts.
— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024 -
The Supreme Court did not squarely answer the most pressing issue in the case: whether the public has a right to inspect and copy a stenographer’s audio recording.
— Bill Rankin, ajc, 30 May 2017 -
Plexiglas panels were placed between the lawyers and a court stenographer.
— NBC News, 17 May 2021 -
As lawmakers agreed to the deals, the dictograph carried their conversation to the room next door, where a stenographer wrote it all down.
— Andrew Lanham, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2022 -
Many Twitters users pointed out the staffers and stenographer who are visible in the video were within six feet of Sullivan.
— Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2020 -
The only other people present were the prosecutor, the defense lawyer and a stenographer.
— Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 23 June 2020 -
Burns, the stenographer, danced in Busby Berkeley films and married one of the top cinematographers at Fox.
— Keith Johnston, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2021 -
Some of the jurors in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial fell asleep during the proceedings, the court stenographer has revealed.
— Brendan Morrow, The Week, 7 June 2022 -
On the morning of April 15th at five minutes to nine, Miss Jordan, the head stenographer, fainted from excitement into the arms of my junior partner.
— Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017 -
Alarm bells began ringing in Ms. Craig’s head when the doctor stepped into the room accompanied by a stenographer.
— New York Times, 30 May 2021 -
Some are stenographers and others are voice writers who speak into stenomasks to record everything said in the courtroom.
— Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018 -
Caine stars as a successful writer of seedy pulp novels who dictates his books to stenographers rather than have to go to the trouble of using a typewriter.
— Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 29 Dec. 2017 -
The other common thread is filmmakers who refuse to act as stenographers and invent or embellish beyond the page.
— Scott Tobias, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017 -
Marilyn was working as a court stenographer at the time, the same job her father had, and then got a job at RKO Pictures, one of the five major motion picture companies at the time.
— Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2019 -
At the time, Ruth was working as a stenographer at Paramount Studios, and Elliot was designing light fixtures.
— Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023 -
The stenographer’s job at the Medfield hospital remained unfilled throughout the summer of 1915.
— Dick Lehr, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023 -
The court stenographers fought hard against publishing transcripts.
— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024 -
Both in her youth and then again in her 50's Barbara worked as a court medical stenographer, but her greatest pleasure was spending time with her family and friends.
— sun-sentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2019 -
Court stenographers were on hand for the hearings, but Gaughan has said transcripts won’t be released until after trial.
— Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018 -
Her father, Leo, was a teacher, and her mother, Fanny (Natelson) Dressler, was a stenographer.
— Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 1 July 2018 -
His father was a court stenographer, his mother a homemaker.
— BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021 -
Committee staffers had been prepared to go forward with the interview and waited in a room on Capitol Hill with a stenographer, but started to file out of the room nine minutes after the deadline passed.
— Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021 -
In other insight from the Fairfax, Virginia courtroom where the trial took place, the court stenographer who covered the trial said that some of the jurors struggled to stay awake during the entire six-week trial.
— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2022 -
No one pays attention, save the stenographers furiously transcribing for the Congressional Record and the handful of viewers on C-Span.
— Ben Jacobs, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024
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