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exterminator

[ik-stur-muh-nay-ter] / ɪkˈstɜr məˌneɪ tər /




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One is the Jewish son of an exterminator who rose to Harvard; the other the cerebral product of a striving Black middle class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

“Bees are still wild animals” but nothing to call an exterminator for, Durboraw said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

He didn’t pursue acting full time until he was in his 40s, working for a time as an exterminator.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

"I've got an exterminator coming in tomorrow to do another set of sprays," he told the BBC on Friday.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023

I ran past the gym doors—“Can’t you go any faster?” from Coach Quatrini—and out into the parking lot, where the exterminator truck had pulled up to unload Sycorax and Caliban into their new cage.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

The association added that when hotels encounter bedbugs, guests are relocated and exterminators are called, in accordance with health and safety guidelines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

In the game description, it says players - who take on the roles of exterminators - are tasked with treating "mysterious infestations caused by twisted versions of classic characters and urban legends".

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

Germany survived, grew, thrived; Germans carried on; the world had little use for those who wished to dwell on the extermination of European Jews, or for how to deal with the exterminators themselves.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

But she also represents their best chance of survival and moving where this domesticated breed belongs: inside homes, away from cars, cats, hawks, Florida heat and possibly government-hired exterminators.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

“All right. If you think I’m being unfair about the exterminators, we’ll both pay for it.”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan


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