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exterminator

[ik-stur-muh-ney-ter] / ɪkˈstɜr məˌneɪ tər /




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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

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

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

"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

Another pawned her sewing machine and summoned an exterminator.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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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