surveyor
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Apart from the Walden adventure, Thoreau appeared as a public speaker and worked as a surveyor and in his father’s very successful pencil factory, for which he created some important innovations.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Ibrahim, 52, is a former surveyor in Somaliland's capital Hargeisa, who quit his job in 2015 to try his luck.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
Luke is 34 and works as a chartered surveyor in London.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Building surveyor, David Walter, says the insulation wasn't fitted correctly and says the installer ''didn't understand what they were doing and what they were doing to the building which is why we've got these problems.''
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
He’d been to Trinity College in Dublin, and he was a surveyor.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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