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exterminator

[ik-stur-muh-nay-ter] / ɪkˈstɜr məˌneɪ tər /




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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

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

While the war on rats has no end in sight, the exterminator Edwards said we can learn a lot from their resilience.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

"I've got an exterminator coming in tomorrow to do another set of sprays," he told the BBC on Friday.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023

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

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

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

Witchers are this world's exterminators except the vermin they hunt are deadly creatures from another sphere of existence.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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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