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porter

[pawr-ter, pohr-] / ˈpɔr tər, ˈpoʊr- /


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As a $5.28-an-hour porter he had to scrap 15,000 square feet of trash every 60 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

A transit porter and motorman with the New York City subway in the 1980s, Mr. Naiden was active in a tiny communist cell within the union, endorsing free fares and encouraging turnstile hopping.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Scrawled in chalk in the list of draft beers was the Edmund Fitzgerald porter, a longtime brew from the Great Lakes Brewing Co.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

He joined the 35-member expedition as a porter despite no prior mountaineering experience.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

At length they came back to the Steward’s Door, and Beregond looked with grief at the porter.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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