janitor
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Bob Trebilcock relates that, near the peak of the tech bubble, the janitor at his church bragged about his day-trading profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Laura Esquivel, a janitor at Los Angeles International Airport, expressed frustration that council members were not standing by their earlier commitment.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
“I’m crying,” said Nidia Perez, a grandmother and school janitor who caught the game in a plaza in Caracas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The son of parents who fled Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s, Tiafoe used to sleep on the floor at a plush Maryland tennis centre where his father was a janitor.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Soon my father took a job as a janitor at an elementary school.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
It would mean more than 60,000 essential district workers — teachers, counselors, nurses, bus drivers, janitors and cafeteria workers — would walk off the job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
We should be able to leave the movie and not feel like we missed anything if we didn’t stay until the janitors started to sweep.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
A museum guard stood outside the bathroom, and janitors cleaned the piece every 15 minutes or so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Her parents, both Mexican immigrants who work night shifts as janitors, watch Kevin while Orea is on campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
Some now worked downtown, messengers, janitors, things like that.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
