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as in officer
a person who holds a public office
the new governor made a vow that he would always remember why he was called a public servant
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as in civil servant
a worker in a government agency
concerned that the new federal agency would just add another slew of public servants to the government payroll
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Recent Examples of public servant
Some public servants have taken issue with the governor’s assertion that in-person work will create more collaboration.
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William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 12 Mar. 2025
As a result, public servants are very, very reluctant to divulge information and are often uncooperative.
—Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
These are often younger federal employees who have worked their way up the ladder, and who represent the next generation of public servants.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
The affected population includes many public servants—teachers, firefighters, police officers, federal employees under the Civil Service Retirement System, and even those working under foreign social security systems.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 12 Mar. 2025
As a result, public servants are very, very reluctant to divulge information and are often uncooperative.
—Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
These are often younger federal employees who have worked their way up the ladder, and who represent the next generation of public servants.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2025
The affected population includes many public servants—teachers, firefighters, police officers, federal employees under the Civil Service Retirement System, and even those working under foreign social security systems.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for public servant
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Logansport Police officer Cody Scott and his wife, Kylie Scott, were both charged with two counts of felony child neglect.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
16 Mar. 2025
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The officer questions him and checks his papers, then offers to drive him to the nearest train station — though the offer is to be taken to the station, or taken to jail.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
16 Mar. 2025
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As the senior career civil servant overseeing defense, intelligence, and veterans’ programs at the Office of Management and Budget during the first Trump Administration, I was asked to sign off on a hold on military aid to Ukraine, similar to that recently imposed by Trump.—
Mark Sandy,
TIME,
14 Mar. 2025
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Doug O'Donnell, a civil servant who spent several decades at the agency, left the IRS last month amid the disagreement between career staff and political appointees.—
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14 Mar. 2025
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The carcasses were collected for safe disposal, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
18 Mar. 2025
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Mexican officials said Roman-Bardales, a Salvadoran national, was arrested in Veracruz as a result of international cooperation efforts.—
Cara Tabachnick,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2025
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She was released from custody on $300,000 bond, according to the Waterbury Judicial District clerk’s office, and is next due in court on March 26.—
Michelle Krupa,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025
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The deed to your property can be retrieved from your respective county clerk’s office.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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Teacher turnover Educators who were frustrated by remote learning and other conditions quit teaching and departed from classrooms across the nation, leaving school administrators nationwide with shortages of teachers and substitutes on staff, according to a RAND survey from 2021.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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Rubio will continue to be USAID's acting administrator, and the two political appointees will be deputy administrators.—
Camilla Schick,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Federal judges have also ruled that the administration’s firing of probationary employees did not follow the appropriate procedures for layoffs and that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management lacked the authority to order the firings.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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Careless People By Sarah Wynn-Williams Given Wynn-Williams’s privileged position as Facebook’s first executive focused specifically on global policy, her perspective might differ from that of employees on other teams.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2025
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By late 2014, Ebola had wreaked havoc on all sectors of society, according to the World Bank, leaving half of the Liberian workers without a job.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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Executive orders aimed at excluding specific organizations from the PSLF program have not altered the initiative’s core structure, which forgives student debt for public service workers after 10 years of qualifying payments.—
Scott White,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Conservative legal advocates argue that Humphrey’s Executor has allowed unelected bureaucrats to wield executive power without accountability, undermining Article II of the Constitution, which vests executive authority in the president.—
Kaelan Deese,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
12 Mar. 2025
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Eventually, some brilliant bureaucrats realized that humans are motivated by competition, and the Florida Python Challenge was born.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Public servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20servant. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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