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
“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
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025
“You can get a spare for free from the janitor, but it won’t have the school crest. And don’t expect it to fit. Or have been washed.”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Those who lost their jobs worked across the U.S. in construction, at hotels and as janitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
In one videotaped speech during a high school student government campaign, he complains of being told to pick up his trash, saying that should be the work of paid janitors.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 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
I was cutting across the quad one day and one of the janitors saw me, said, “Hey, you’re that girl who spins on her head!” and I was legitimately freaked out.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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