exterminator
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The second reports calling in a professional exterminator, but after a week or two the mice returned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
He started out as an exterminator in New York City and has spent his life immersed in rats.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
The department also said that its own inspection this week did not reveal any black worms, and that the jail maintains a contract with an exterminator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
When we updated the exterminator, he canceled the appointment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
Certainly I’m no mad exterminator bent on killing devil microbes; on the contrary, I admire them.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
After taking a suggestion from the audience, Jordan Black and Roy Jenkins begin an improvised scene in which they are playing two exterminators whose jobs are their identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
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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