butler
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Hopkins’ voice, still deeply familiar as some of film’s most famous characters, including the serial killer Hannibal Lecter and the English butler, James Stevens, from “Remains of the Day,” now has a weathered rasp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Ismael Camenforte Lopez, described in Germany as his manager's "ball butler", is known for feeding balls into training matches, allowing sessions to be played at a high tempo.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“I kind of think of myself as the butler of downtown,” said Hal Bastian, 65, who has lived in the neighborhood for three decades and is known to many as “Mr. Downtown L.A.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2026
He tells me the apartment comes with a butler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
For this reason be automatically wondered whether he had not perhaps been discourteous to the butler in his distraction.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The investor story is not robot butlers or science-fiction spectacle — it is production costs.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
They offer personalized service, in which white-coat butlers can help draw a scented bath, deliver hors d’oeuvres or arrange a private cocktail reception.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
A battalion of chefs, butlers and drivers catering to the smallest of whims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
A new robot shop has opened in Beijing selling everything from mechanical butlers to human-like replicas of Albert Einstein.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
