exterminator

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

He started out as an exterminator in New York City and has spent his life immersed in rats.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

But his second act as humanitarian, house builder, Guinea worm exterminator and Nobel Peace Prize winner was a portrait of perseverance and grace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

While the war on rats has no end in sight, the exterminator Edwards said we can learn a lot from their resilience.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

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

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

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

Witchers are this world's exterminators except the vermin they hunt are deadly creatures from another sphere of existence.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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