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porter

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


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At around 8 p.m., night shift workers shut down every gallery in South Hall, locking every prisoner inside his cell, including the porter, who sometimes acts as an additional set of eyes and ears.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

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

Pat McElhetton was working a late shift as a porter in South Tyrone Hospital on the day of the bomb.

From BBC Mar. 14, 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

One day it was my porter known as Itchy, for all the time he spent scratching his scalp.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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