gandy dancer

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Noun
  • This film exposes the harsh contrast between the lives of people who enjoy cutting-edge technology in Silicon Valley and the laborers in the Global South who teach the machines to see.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Finding enough workers to fill open landscaping positions has long been a struggle, even when firms can bring in foreign laborers.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • At the same time, average wage earners were forced out of the new car market.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 17 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
  • Signs of grub infestation include large dead patches where the sod is not well-anchored and can be rolled back to expose the large grubs.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Skunks and raccoons will dig up each grub individually, leaving a small hole that healthy grass can refill quickly.
    Steven Sullivan, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Its naked carbon-fiber body bears the scuffs and scars of life as a development hack, but its steroidal wheelarches, extendable rear spoiler, and brutal diffuser deliver an emphatic statement of intent.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Many common airfare booking hacks, like searching on a Tuesday or using incognito mode, are myths according to travel experts.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 15 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
  • Steen, who is a special assistant to GM Doug Armstrong, joined the Blues in 2008.
    Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • As Bond tells it, her assistant found Moo at a farm nearby.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The maker of brands such as KitKat and Nesquik named Navratil its new CEO last month after dismissing long-time company executive Laurent Frexie, who served as chief executive for one year before an undisclosed romantic relationship with a subordinate came to light.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Laurent Freixe was dismissed for failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a direct subordinate, which breached Nestlé’s code of business conduct.
    Ana Nicolaci da Costa, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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