exterminator
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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
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
A man posing as a pest exterminator tried to gain access to a San Diego hotel that operates as a shelter for migrant families.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
Another pawned her sewing machine and summoned an exterminator.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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