How to Use gofer in a Sentence
gofer
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Why shouldn't an athletic director – or a gofer – be allowed to coach line drills?
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Blake Toppmeyer,
The Tennessean,
28 Mar. 2024
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Though her daughter, who just started playing the cello, will join Giddens in Ojai as a gofer.
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Tim Greiving,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2023
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Pitt plays Cliff Booth, Rick’s longtime stunt double, gofer and drinking buddy.
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Samantha Miller,
PEOPLE.com,
26 July 2019
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When Grainge was seventeen, a talent agent in Soho hired him as a sandwich guy, the lowliest gofer.
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John Seabrook,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2024
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Keep an eye out for rare species like the American kestrel, gopher tortoise, and the flatwoods salamander.
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Erica Zazo,
Outside Online,
9 Jan. 2025
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After treating the divas to a lovely performance on harp, the gofer can’t resist a bit of braggadocio.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
21 Nov. 2024
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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.
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Shane Harris,
Washington Post,
13 Oct. 2022
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Budenholzer credits his success to his first NBA job as Popovich’s gofer in the film room.
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Jeff McDonald,
San Antonio Express-News,
30 Oct. 2021
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An act of vandalism could have a lasting effect on a pair of gopher tortoises in southwest Florida.
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Rachel McRady,
People.com,
4 Dec. 2024
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As a threatened species, gopher tortoises are called a keystone species because hundreds of other animals depend on them for their burrows.
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Orlando Sentinel Staff,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Jan. 2025
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One rule adaptation is all that separates gofers from inhaling the intoxicating power of coaching a shuttle drill.
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Blake Toppmeyer,
The Tennessean,
28 Mar. 2024
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As Manny Torres in Babylon, Calva plays an ambitious gofer with dreams of being part of the movie-making world.
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Benjamin Vanhoose,
Peoplemag,
22 Dec. 2022
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As a kid in Riverside, 50 miles east of Los Angeles, Bobby went to work as a caddie and a construction gofer.
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Jeremy Collins,
The Atlantic,
12 Dec. 2025
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By age 13, Vail was working at multiple radio stations as a gofer, soaking up information from DJs.
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Joe Rubin,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Mar. 2024
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Younger by a year and a half, Rahaman Ali gave up his own boxing career to become a chauffeur, sparring partner, gofer, chef and right-hand man for older brother Muhammad.
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Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
16 Aug. 2025
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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.
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EW.com,
22 Oct. 2019
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As such transfers of power are not the norm, vice presidents can usually be found in unglamorous busy work, at best breaking tie votes in the Senate and at worst serving as White House gofers.
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Book Marks
october 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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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.
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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.
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Jay Mathews,
Washington Post,
10 July 2019
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The Football Oversight Committee apparently has had enough of this oppression that restricts gofers to gofering and smoothie makers to smoothie making.
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Blake Toppmeyer,
The Tennessean,
28 Mar. 2024
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Radio station gofer to promoter Lifelong friend Ron Beatty recalls Vail always being passionate about the music business.
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Joe Rubin,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Mar. 2024
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