surveyor
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The chartered surveyor outbid Rolling Stones star Jagger for the idyllic Isle of Gigha, off Scotland's west coast, in 1989.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
So he accepts Washington’s self-description as an experienced surveyor and hires him to lead a small expedition to chart the lands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"Before, we used to pass on the left; now the passage is to the right of the sandbank, and it's very, very narrow," said Daniela Cuoghi, a surveyor for Aipo.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
The first gallery looks at Washington’s childhood and teen years, his parents, and his first job as a 16-year-old surveyor, including a set of his equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
I saw in their faces how happy they were, and sad, too, because Uncle Katsuhisa would never be a land surveyor.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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“Quality repairs aren’t just about immediate survival — they’re about passing the long-term scrutiny of adjusters, surveyors, and insurers,” the company says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
As Manchester recounted, “The artist’s eye was uncanny; next morning a team of surveyors found he had been less than six inches off the axis.”
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
When surveyors for a much delayed $12 billion road project under the River Thames scoured for bats, they found six in an abandoned World War II air-raid shelter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
That means it couldn’t deploy surveyors to the field to collect the real-time pricing data needed to help generate the inflation index.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
George Washington was one of many surveyors whose work enabled them to increase their own landholdings.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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