responder

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Recent Examples of responder 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 These voice-video systems have cameras that detect whether a person can hear an emergency responder. — Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 7 Sep. 2026 The call ends abruptly, but the responder sends police officers to the woman’s location. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for responder
Noun
  • One replier even proposed taking women to the city dump to shoot rats.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • For instance, a respondent might choose between two combinations.
    — Fengxiu Zhang, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The average survey respondent projects a significant boost in productivity and economic growth but also a substantial disruption to workers in AI-sensitive fields.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Responder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/responder. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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