surveyor

One of those displaced by the advance was Jamal Abu Miri, a 68-year-old retired land surveyor who understood firsthand that the Yellow Line was more than just an arbitrary marker on a map.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

So he accepts Washington’s self-description as an experienced surveyor and hires him to lead a small expedition to chart the lands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Apart from the Walden adventure, Thoreau appeared as a public speaker and worked as a surveyor and in his father’s very successful pencil factory, for which he created some important innovations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Ibrahim, 52, is a former surveyor in Somaliland's capital Hargeisa, who quit his job in 2015 to try his luck.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

With little formal schooling, Washington became a surveyor in his teens, measuring and mapping Virginia’s enormous, unsettled wilderness.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

As Manchester recounted, “The artist’s eye was uncanny; next morning a team of surveyors found he had been less than six inches off the axis.”

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

But though Americans haven’t held back their complaints from surveyors, other signals point to a stretched but resilient consumer economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

That means it couldn’t deploy surveyors to the field to collect the real-time pricing data needed to help generate the inflation index.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025

Using light traps, surveyors had been looking for the limnephilus taricus species of caddisfly, but instead found the limnephilus patis, which is even rarer.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025

When the war finally ended Mother and I sold the tavern and moved out to Pennsylvania where new lands were opening up and surveyors were much in demand.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier