gandy dancer

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Noun
  • He is accused of not checking work authorizations before hiring laborers, according to the Post.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • Israel soon barred nearly two hundred thousand Palestinian laborers from its workforce.
    Nirit Peled, New Yorker, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Homes that were built to be attainable for a modest local wage earner were inflated into high-yield financial assets.
    Jonathan Tower, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026
  • Sanchez and Stewart have disagreed on housing policy in the city, but both have said there is a critical need to balance the expansion of market-rate apartments with units that are within reach of below-average wage earners.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Many birds subsist on bugs, including grubs, earthworms, and flying insects.
    The Spruce, The Spruce, 5 July 2026
  • Gas stations have been reinventing themselves for the past decade with food offerings that rival many established grub-only chains.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • The installers were jobbers who worked for one of the big-box retailers.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2025
  • Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Some campaigns mix traditional ad films with sponsorship hacks, platform plays, and one piece of kit design that turned a referee’s uniform into a punchline.
    Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The first swing was a powerful uppercut, the type of grown-man hack synonymous with no-doubters and moonshots.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
Noun
  • Bollo, the son of a domestic worker and a line cook, said he’s applied to work as a teaching assistant and graduate researcher, which would waive the cost of his tuition.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • How — and to what extent — AI might reshape her profession remains to be seen, but jobs for administrative assistants and secretaries have been dwindling for decades.
    Claire Savage, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Noun
  • Mayor Dean Trantalis, Commissioner Steven Glassman and Commissioner John Herbst took issue with her leadership, accusing her of being dismissive to subordinates and ruffling too many feathers.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • Put simply, the theory says the president should be able to issue orders to subordinates and to fire them at will.
    Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Yet the story of the toiler turned tycoon persisted.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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