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Six example sentences with clerical, each labelled with its topic.
Her first job was clerical: filing invoices, stamping mail, and keeping the ledger current for eleven salespeople.
Business
A clerical error in the docket number sent the file to the wrong courtroom for two weeks.
Law
The clinic hired two more staff for clerical work so nurses could stop typing insurance forms between patients.
Medicine
A clerical error in the count gave one candidate two hundred extra votes until a volunteer noticed the transposed digits.
Politics
The bank traced the missing deposit to a clerical mistake, a single digit typed wrong on a Friday afternoon.
Finance
Victorian railway companies employed armies of clerical workers who copied every ticket sale into ledgers by hand.
History
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