gandy dancer

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Noun
  • The exploitation of enslaved laborers on cane plantations increased supply and decreased production costs.
    Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which compiled data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, also reported that in 2023, women comprised 4.3% of workers in construction and extraction occupations, which include construction laborers, carpenters and electricians.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
  • With growing numbers of wage earners returning to offices, emerging work campuses are gaining fresh attention.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And, where many other Stoic writers suggest seeking the divine through contemplation of the stars or natural landscapes, Pliny does the same with bugs and grubs.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Our guide showed us how to eat grubs (gongo, in Portuguese).
    Bill Frist, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Another convenient hack for decreasing airport stress is to wear all of your must-have essentials on your person, rather than stashing them in your backpack or carry-on.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2025
  • That is, until one mom discovered the ultimate hack to get her toddler to eat vegetables.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Read full article Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 May 2021
Noun
  • Each agent, from autonomous drones delivering packages to personal AI assistants managing healthcare schedules, informs and learns from the collective ecosystem.
    Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • In November 2023 riots broke out in Dublin when an Algerian national was arrested after allegedly stabbing and injuring three young children and a care assistant.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • More strangely, however, Wynn-Williams claims that Sandberg had a habit of crossing boundaries with her female subordinates.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In one incident, the complaint alleges Jong was talking with subordinates about Dodgers baseball legend Fernando Valenzuela’s death from septic shock.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The series paints a stark picture of a corporate world where individuals become little more than specialized cogs in a vast mechanized system.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The chest-thumping celebrations in the White House and the antics of its pet-project DOGE intersected to rile up Democrats, who have been trying to defend all corners of the federal cogs.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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