exterminator

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

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

A roar of noise—an exterminator just leaving a house, pump bellowing—overtakes them.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

“All right. If you think I’m being unfair about the exterminators, we’ll both pay for it.”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan