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Recent Examples of swamper
Their partners, known as swampers, grabbed at underbrush and dragged it away.
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M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
During his tenure in the oil patch, Smith worked as a truck driver’s assistant, or swamper, for a rig-moving company.
—Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2021
If something were to happen to the captain, the swamper would be the one to radio for help and manage the situation until others arrived.
—Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
That comes from my roots of playing in clubs where sometimes the only person who was there was the swamper cleaning up the bar.
—Bob Doerschuk, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
During his tenure in the oil patch, Smith worked as a truck driver’s assistant, or swamper, for a rig-moving company.
—Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2021
If something were to happen to the captain, the swamper would be the one to radio for help and manage the situation until others arrived.
—Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
That comes from my roots of playing in clubs where sometimes the only person who was there was the swamper cleaning up the bar.
—Bob Doerschuk, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swamper
Noun
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In one of the tents set up for the devotees in the capital, laborer Ankit Gupta put out plates and food in anticipation of the arrival of the next group of pilgrims.—
Aishwarya S. Iyer,
CNN Money,
25 July 2025
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The document lacks details on how states’ regulations would be judged, but some blue states, like California and New York, have already started passing laws protecting workers’ rights against AI—with support from unions and laborers.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
23 July 2025
Noun
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One especially calm night allowed time for Benesch to quiz the health workers while surgeons were otherwise occupied operating in theaters.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
2 Aug. 2025
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The agency declined to name the company that was employing the construction workers and said that the safety report could take four to five months to be completed.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Nearly 50% of employees say their bosses don’t understand them or their jobs, according to the April 2025 Workplace Perception Gap Survey from HR platform The Predictive Index, which sampled 1,000 workers across different industries, age groups and job levels.—
Ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
1 Aug. 2025
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When The Brand And The Experience Don’t Match One of the fastest ways to detect culture drift is to compare your external brand promise to the day-to-day employee and customer experience.—
Bryant Richardson,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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To pretend otherwise in the year 2024 is all-but to out oneself as a hireling.—
Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
12 Feb. 2024
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For all the bombast about Trump as a potential Putin hireling, so assiduously hyped by the media and congressional Democrats, Mueller’s actual charges mainly involved false statements made to FBI investigators, often about comparatively trivial matters.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
15 Feb. 2022
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“Swamper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swamper. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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