gandy dancer

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Noun
  • In the early twentieth century, two groups of Indians living in America, young intellectuals and working-class laborers, had very different experiences of the country.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The actions of delivery truck drivers, warehouse laborers and many others can be tracked and sifted, too.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But the past few years of layoffs, hiring slowdowns, and dwindling worker protections have left a subset of wage earners inclined to keep their cards close.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To avoid being cost-burdened, a minimum-wage earner in Miami would have to work more than 100 hours a week.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Proslavery propaganda in the antebellum South insisted that Northern wage slaves were worse off than Southern chattel slaves.
    Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Noun
  • Bramson, 73, always looked forward to visiting Royal Castle with his lifelong friend and getting some of that good grub.
    Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The spooky lights are setting the mood inside and out, the doorway is decorated with pumpkins, skeletons and spiderwebs, the playlist is ready for the monsters to mash and the food table is topped with some grossly realistic-looking grub.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The installers were jobbers who worked for one of the big-box retailers.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025
  • Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Boston's Museum of Science shared a TikTok video in 2023 featuring Alex Dainis, a science communicator with a PhD in genetics, who absolutely blew the internet’s mind with a quick hack to extending your car’s remote alarm range.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Although the hack-and-slash gameplay can prove repetitive for some, Age of Imprisonment succeeds in building on the previous game's foundation in ways that will surely please both Zelda and Dynasty Warriors fans alike.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Freshman Rashad McCants scored 25 points on 10-of-15 shooting for the Tar Heels, who were coached in the Preseason NIT semifinal by former Jayhawk assistant Matt Doherty.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The assistant can handle more complex requests too.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • For food service establishments like KFC, this means people who devote more than 40% of their time during the work week performing the same work as their subordinates.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Charges The obstruction charge centers on allegations that Comey directed subordinates to remove or conceal those memos from FBI systems after his dismissal in May 2017, actions prosecutors claim impeded a lawful investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified material.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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