exterminator
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One is the Jewish son of an exterminator who rose to Harvard; the other the cerebral product of a striving Black middle class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
The department also said that its own inspection this week did not reveal any black worms, and that the jail maintains a contract with an exterminator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
He didn’t pursue acting full time until he was in his 40s, working for a time as an exterminator.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
"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
By that time, Mr. Guareschi, who had heard all the screaming, was trying to get the exterminator to go inside the tennis courts to catch the rats.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
After taking a suggestion from the audience, Jordan Black and Roy Jenkins begin an improvised scene in which they are playing two exterminators whose jobs are their identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
Witchers are this world's exterminators except the vermin they hunt are deadly creatures from another sphere of existence.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
The project's 36-strong team has turned amateur rat-catchers into proper exterminators.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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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