exterminator

One is the Jewish son of an exterminator who rose to Harvard; the other the cerebral product of a striving Black middle class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

He started out as an exterminator in New York City and has spent his life immersed in rats.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

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

He didn’t pursue acting full time until he was in his 40s, working for a time as an exterminator.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

I ran past the gym doors—“Can’t you go any faster?” from Coach Quatrini—and out into the parking lot, where the exterminator truck had pulled up to unload Sycorax and Caliban into their new cage.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

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