porter
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As a $5.28-an-hour porter he had to scrap 15,000 square feet of trash every 60 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
A transit porter and motorman with the New York City subway in the 1980s, Mr. Naiden was active in a tiny communist cell within the union, endorsing free fares and encouraging turnstile hopping.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Scrawled in chalk in the list of draft beers was the Edmund Fitzgerald porter, a longtime brew from the Great Lakes Brewing Co.
From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025
"How about a porter wearing a pair of shoes from lost property and the person turning up to claim them?," laughed David.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025
“What security? I left this building at three o’clock this afternoon and there was only a porter on duty, as usual. I should be asking you for identification. Who appointed you? And why?”
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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