gandy dancer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gandy dancer
Noun
  • Authorities had alleged that Haskell had hired four day laborers on Nov. 7, 2023 to dispose of several large trash bags, which one of the laborers said contained body parts.
    Liam Quinn, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • Farmworker advocates said Friday afternoon that one laborer had died from injuries sustained after falling from the roof of a greenhouse at Glass House cannabis operation while trying to escape federal agents.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Our friends and neighbors are living in terror of ICE raids that leave their families broken without a wage earner and leave children without their parents.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2025
  • For wage earners, Social Security and Medicare taxes are called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) and are taken out of your paycheck.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The next growing season, follow up with a preventative grub treatment applied spring through mid-summer to reduce the grub population.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2025
  • The dead grass can be caused by brown patch fungus, insects like grubs or chinch bugs, poor lawn care practices, or environmental conditions like drought, heat, or pet urine.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Marks & Spencer projects the hack will cost it up to £300 million in operating profits this year.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 9 July 2025
  • Still, phone hacks are more common than most people realize.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 May 2021
Noun
  • Elsewhere in the Cox Pavilion were multiple representatives of the Magic front office including president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman, general manager Anthony Parker and assistant GM Stephen Mervis.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025
  • Holt, McDonald and Heiss all have listed themselves as San Diego State assistants on their social media accounts, though SDSU has not yet officially announced the hirings.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The disclosure appears to rule out problems with the company’s accounting, mishandling of day-to-day business or questionable conduct with a subordinate.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • That claim by President Trump and his subordinates seems at once overblown and beside the point.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Aside from the already extraordinary tale of the O’Leary clan, Jim O’Leary led a life of adventure as a main cog for the city’s infamous gambling operations at a time when gangsters battled over control of the Prohibition liquor trade.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • Elliot — a misfit yearning for coherence and connection; a cog raging against the machine that owns him — rebooted the alienated hero to electrifying effect.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 July 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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