gandy dancer

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Noun
  • Meanwhile, blue-collar or trade laborers are expected to remain essential.
    Eyal Lifshitz, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • On the Mauser Packaging Solutions plant floor, laborers do the dirty work of reconditioning steel containers used to transport chemicals.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Social Security Administration (SSA) distributes benefits to more than 70 million people, including retirees, disabled workers and the families of deceased wage earners.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) from July through September.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 19 July 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
  • The adult beetles emerge in late spring to early summer, but the larvae, or grubs, also are responsible for chewing on turf grass roots in mid to late summer.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The bar serves pub grub including nachos ($11.50), chicken wings ($16.50) and sandwiches (around $15), plus globally inspired appetizers ($10 to $12).
    Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Crypto’s security risks are unique, and smart contract bugs or wallet hacks can wipe out funds.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 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
  • The Dia browser, a simpler option that allows people to chat with an AI assistant about multiple browser tabs at once, became available in beta in June.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Though the pair eventually found employment—Kornfeind as a trade compliance specialist and Raines as an administrative assistant at their alma mater—these accounts of the gauntlet facing recent college graduates are far from unique.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Participants would complete a physical fitness test, have their body fat measured, undergo a psychological evaluation, receive leadership evaluations from former peers and subordinates, and complete verbal and written communication assessments.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The heat on Nestlé is shifting from its CEO, who was fired this week for having an undisclosed affair with a subordinate, to its board, whose initial, apparently cursory, investigation failed to uncover evidence that a later probe uncovered.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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