janitor
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The company hires people for roles like janitor, maintenance worker and in other trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
“I’m crying,” said Nidia Perez, a grandmother and school janitor who caught the game in a plaza in Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
The one that knocked his tooth out has got himself a purple, steel-buttoned outfit that looks like a cast-off janitor uniform.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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
“Carson is a working-class community of janitors, barbers, bus drivers and longshoremen,” said attorney Gary Praglin of the Santa Monica-based law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
Today I estimate that more than 30,000 Microsoft employees, from secretaries to janitors, have become millionaires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
California has more than 220,000 full-time state employees and about 60% work in positions, as janitors and highway patrol officers for example, that already require them to report in-person daily.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
Even those employed as waiters and janitors might be enticed to leave personal service for the higher wages of the stockyards.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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