janitor
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McManus, who was also known as Mike, had worked as a janitor at the police station for three years at the time of his death.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bob Trebilcock relates that, near the peak of the tech bubble, the janitor at his church bragged about his day-trading profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Laura Esquivel, a janitor at Los Angeles International Airport, expressed frustration that council members were not standing by their earlier commitment.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The son of parents who fled Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s, Tiafoe used to sleep on the floor at a plush Maryland tennis centre where his father was a janitor.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Someone who had snuck in when the janitor wasn’t looking?
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
Those who lost their jobs worked across the U.S. in construction, at hotels and as janitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
It would mean more than 60,000 essential district workers — teachers, counselors, nurses, bus drivers, janitors and cafeteria workers — would walk off the job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
In one videotaped speech during a high school student government campaign, he complains of being told to pick up his trash, saying that should be the work of paid janitors.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
We should be able to leave the movie and not feel like we missed anything if we didn’t stay until the janitors started to sweep.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
I was cutting across the quad one day and one of the janitors saw me, said, “Hey, you’re that girl who spins on her head!” and I was legitimately freaked out.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
