gaffers

Definition of gaffersnext
plural of gaffer
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Noun
  • Hanover Park represents one of Saper’s flagship bets on AI-native services, while Rowspace is building AI infrastructure for large asset managers.
    TrueBridge Capital, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • For emergency managers, the goal is preventing a repeat of what happened after Irma.
    Mallory Nicholls, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Rebekah, in the Hebrew Bible, matriarch who is the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob, both key patriarchs.
    Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
  • What father would ever allow such devastation, assuring fellow patriarchs that their lives without sons would be ruined forever?
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Reach out to your professors, your internship supervisors, your parents’ colleagues, your alumni network.
    Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
  • One case, regarding the board of supervisors' issuing a special use permit for the aviary, went to the Virginia Supreme Court and was returned to a circuit court judge, who has not yet issued a decision.
    DANA HEDGPETH THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 24 May 2026
Noun
  • The old-timers try to stay in touch.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026
  • Some bargain hunters poked around, while a handful of old-timers walked the halls for exercise.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • However, county superintendents can wield significant influence over district budgets.
    East Bay Times editorial board, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • But superintendents’ pay includes more than just salary, and many can also cash out their unused vacation or sick days each year.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • Raya Elfadel Kheirbek is a professor of medicine and chief of the division of palliative medicine and geriatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
    Raya Elfadel Kheirbek, Washington Post, 17 May 2026
  • What was shocking was that searches for novels about geriatrics period almost exclusively turned up women not very much older.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • In other words, Doomsayers see a world of declining resources that needs overseers to divvy them up.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 20 Mar. 2026
  • While the model still lacks the judgment or taste of its human overseers, executives don’t expect that gap to last long.
    Harry Booth, Time, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The exhibit features several dozen dinosaur animatronics that fully loom and roar, and a virtual aquarium stocked with swimming ancients.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
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“Gaffers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaffers. Accessed 31 May. 2026.

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