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
“Bees are still wild animals” but nothing to call an exterminator for, Durboraw said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
When we updated the exterminator, he canceled the appointment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 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
“My lawyer tells me that the exterminator is required by law to either post a guard or to arrange for guards to patrol around the houses that are tented.”
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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
In the game description, it says players - who take on the roles of exterminators - are tasked with treating "mysterious infestations caused by twisted versions of classic characters and urban legends".
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 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
That morning, before we picked my mother up, he had said, “You should pay for the exterminators, because Mirugai is your cat and so they’re your fleas. It’s only fair.”
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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