exterminator

The second reports calling in a professional exterminator, but after a week or two the mice returned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

He started out as an exterminator in New York City and has spent his life immersed in rats.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

But his second act as humanitarian, house builder, Guinea worm exterminator and Nobel Peace Prize winner was a portrait of perseverance and grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

My husband called an exterminator, who agreed to come the next morning.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

She said maybe an exterminator came and took care of them in 2004.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

After taking a suggestion from the audience, Jordan Black and Roy Jenkins begin an improvised scene in which they are playing two exterminators whose jobs are their identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

In the game description, it says players - who take on the roles of exterminators - are tasked with treating "mysterious infestations caused by twisted versions of classic characters and urban legends".

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

Germany survived, grew, thrived; Germans carried on; the world had little use for those who wished to dwell on the extermination of European Jews, or for how to deal with the exterminators themselves.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

But she also represents their best chance of survival and moving where this domesticated breed belongs: inside homes, away from cars, cats, hawks, Florida heat and possibly government-hired exterminators.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

The German cockroach throughout much of North America has become resistant to chlordane, once the favorite weapon of exterminators who have now turned to the organic phosphates.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson