How to Use troubleshooter in a Sentence

troubleshooter

noun
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  • Whether the new stadium planned by Knight and his troubleshooter, Howard Slusher, also can do that, remains to be seen.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 3 June 2018
  • Nor was longtime Nike troubleshooter Howard Slusher, who is said to have made many of the final decisions.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The September report was not the first time DEM’s troubleshooters flagged payment problems.
    — Steve Bousquet, miamiherald, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Howard Slusher, longtime troubleshooter for Nike co-founder Phil Knight, took over as project manager.
    — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 24 Mar. 2018
  • His family moved around the Northwest, where his father worked as a troubleshooter for struggling grocery stores.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
  • According to Mehta, the IITs are known for nurturing not engineers but entrepreneurs, technocrats and troubleshooters.
    — Pankti Mehta, CNN, 4 June 2017
  • Her father was a troubleshooter for General Motors, and her mother was a homemaker.
    — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2018
  • After leaving the Fed, Volcker took on assignments as a troubleshooter.
    — Paul Wiseman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Born in Brooklyn, Mainster attended seven schools in 10 years because his father’s job as a troubleshooter for a meat company required travel.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 22 July 2017
  • SMUD troubleshooters in Pocket area determining outage cause and working to restore as quickly and safely as possible.
    — Jessica Hice, sacbee.com, 12 May 2017
  • Not surprisingly, Jaitly was widely seen as Modi’s chief troubleshooter.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Serve as a technical problem-solver/troubleshooter involving daily telephone contact with the ACO and periodic travel.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2019
  • His Travel Troubleshooter column appears weekly at seattletimes.com/travel.
    — Christopher Elliott, The Seattle Times, 7 July 2017
  • Before taking up his job as anticorruption chief in 2012, Mr. Wang forged a career as an economic administrator and troubleshooter.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Teams of mechanics and technical troubleshooters were assembled.
    — Geoff Manaugh, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • On a support page, Microsoft offers a troubleshooter file for download that prevents drivers or updates from being automatically installed.
    — Gordon Gottsegen, WIRED, 29 July 2015
  • Susan Greenhalgh, a troubleshooter at a nonpartisan election monitoring group, was alarmed.
    — Nicole Perlroth, Michael Wines and Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017

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