waiter
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I just saw the waiter put some chairs on top of a table.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Alexander Garcia, a 44-year-old waiter, said he heard firefighters declare "Code 14," which he later found out meant that there were no survivors.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Don’t miss: ‘I’ll probably be working until I die’: I’m 60, work as a waiter and have $2,000 in a Roth IRA.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 2026
Meanwhile Rocky had been out of work for a year before he joined Nando's as a waiter.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Over the samovar’s chimney, the waiter had draped a string festooned with bublitchki, small bagel-shaped rolls baked to a glossy sheen.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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Their children enjoyed "going around like little waiters with like four pizza boxes" with one saying "you ordered a pizza", she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The waiters move slowly, the mirrors hold onto the past.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
So when, at the first eat-in, at the Sands that February, the children defaulted to ordering hamburgers, Duncan barked to the waiters: “No, they do not want hamburgers. They want steak and lobster.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"We have waiters, mechanics, managers, lawyers -- people who have been able to build different lives," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Young mice waiters with perky black bow ties bustled among the diners, stepping neatly over their tails, serving the soup course.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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