RESPONDER Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

responder

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as in answerer

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Recent Examples of responder Furthermore, using opioid abatement funds, the county has expanded youth and family support services, co-responder units and other harm-reduction services. — Joshua Barocas, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026 Lieutenant Ryan Sottile from the sheriff's office was the first emergency responder to arrive and used a fire extinguisher to put out the fire, deputies said. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 This year, 149 Waymo accidents in Los Angeles have involved a passenger vehicle, 11 involved a heavy truck, and two involved a first-responder vehicle. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 But the guardrail that can’t tell an attacker probing a system from a responder trying to understand what just happened isn’t protecting anyone. — Chris Wysopal, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 An individual case study showed that one individual consumed 287 hours of emergency responder time over 15 months, causing more than 200 other 911 callers to experience response delays of more than one minute. — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026 The project was developed with members of 9/11 victims' families, survivors and responder communities, including the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Station, fire responder contract The budget also comes as Hialeah’s firefighters remain without a new contract. — Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026 Miller is advocating for updating the cancer screening policy to make available the very latest and most comprehensive cancer screening to the 9/11 responder community. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

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One replier even proposed taking women to the city dump to shoot rats.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

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