exterminator
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One is the Jewish son of an exterminator who rose to Harvard; the other the cerebral product of a striving Black middle class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
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
When we updated the exterminator, he canceled the appointment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
Certainly I’m no mad exterminator bent on killing devil microbes; on the contrary, I admire them.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The association added that when hotels encounter bedbugs, guests are relocated and exterminators are called, in accordance with health and safety guidelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 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
Witchers are this world's exterminators except the vermin they hunt are deadly creatures from another sphere of existence.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
The project's 36-strong team has turned amateur rat-catchers into proper exterminators.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2023
However, the recent development of resistance to these insecticides confronts the exterminators with the problem of where to go next.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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