exterminator
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The second reports calling in a professional exterminator, but after a week or two the mice returned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
The department also said that its own inspection this week did not reveal any black worms, and that the jail maintains a contract with an exterminator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
While the war on rats has no end in sight, the exterminator Edwards said we can learn a lot from their resilience.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
"I've got an exterminator coming in tomorrow to do another set of sprays," he told the BBC on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
Another pawned her sewing machine and summoned an exterminator.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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The association added that when hotels encounter bedbugs, guests are relocated and exterminators are called, in accordance with health and safety guidelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
In the game description, it says players - who take on the roles of exterminators - are tasked with treating "mysterious infestations caused by twisted versions of classic characters and urban legends".
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024
Germany survived, grew, thrived; Germans carried on; the world had little use for those who wished to dwell on the extermination of European Jews, or for how to deal with the exterminators themselves.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023
Witchers are this world's exterminators except the vermin they hunt are deadly creatures from another sphere of existence.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
The German cockroach throughout much of North America has become resistant to chlordane, once the favorite weapon of exterminators who have now turned to the organic phosphates.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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