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Recent Examples of waitress
Also last November, another jury said Rafael Andres should be sent back to Florida’s Death Row for beating, stabbing and strangling a La Carreta waitress with a rice-cooker cord in 2005.
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Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2026
Many of them are hoping to be the next Sophie Rain, a 23-year-old former waitress from Florida who has already made $82 million on the platform.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
Suzette and her mother, Marcella, ate and took a photo with a waitress while at Mi Tierra Café y Panadería, located in the Historic Market Square, according to the restaurant’s Facebook page.
—Raul Trey Lopez, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Jan. 2026
To end the meal, our waitress tied red string bracelets with small wooden charms around our wrists, a gesture meant to bring good fortune in the year ahead.
—Angela Lian, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
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Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2026
Many of them are hoping to be the next Sophie Rain, a 23-year-old former waitress from Florida who has already made $82 million on the platform.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
Suzette and her mother, Marcella, ate and took a photo with a waitress while at Mi Tierra Café y Panadería, located in the Historic Market Square, according to the restaurant’s Facebook page.
—Raul Trey Lopez, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Jan. 2026
To end the meal, our waitress tied red string bracelets with small wooden charms around our wrists, a gesture meant to bring good fortune in the year ahead.
—Angela Lian, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waitress
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Mexicali stakes a claim to the clamato cocktail, a heady blend of vodka, clam juice and other ingredients invented in the 1960s by a bartender at the city’s Acueducto Piano Bar.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Take a trip to one of your old stomping grounds and pay your favorite bartender a visit.—
Steph Koyfman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Jan. 2026
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The San Diego Union reported that the 34-year-old waiter at Little America Westgate Hotel had been badly beaten and stabbed multiple times.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Our waiter brought a generous tray of olives and celery sticks to the table and then disappeared for a long while.—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2026
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After leaving school in 1954, Von Däniken worked as a waiter and barkeeper for several years, during which he was repeatedly accused of fraud and served a couple of short stints in prison.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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The Florentine entrepreneur Francesco Datini was the son of a barkeep.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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There were only two—the barman who doubled as a grill man looked up at the sound, and an older man turned around from his perch at the bar.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Nov. 2025
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The menu is centered around tataki, sashimi, yakitori, and artisanal cocktails created by barman and co-owner Julien Vézina, who masterfully blends Japanese and Quebec flavors and spirits.—
Pamela MacNaughtan,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Nov. 2025
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“Waitress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waitress. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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