gandy dancer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gandy dancer
Noun
  • In one of the tents set up for the devotees in the capital, laborer Ankit Gupta put out plates and food in anticipation of the arrival of the next group of pilgrims.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
  • The document lacks details on how states’ regulations would be judged, but some blue states, like California and New York, have already started passing laws protecting workers’ rights against AI—with support from unions and laborers.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) from July through September.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 19 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Overwatering can lead to an abundance of mosquitoes, fleas, termites, and carpenter ants, as well as grubs, sod webworms, and cutworms that damage lawn grasses.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 20 July 2025
  • In a similar vein, those interested in making their homes and tablescapes more delicious by nodding to all things grub should first think about the kinds of foods that spark the happiest memories and bring them the most joy, thus refining their search criteria for home pieces online.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Graeter also shared his favorite hack for opening a frozen pint of ice cream without tearing the lid.
    Beryl Love, The Enquirer, 2 Aug. 2025
  • When a junior engineer discovers an effective productivity hack using AI, it should be celebrated—and adopted—company-wide.
    Krish Ramineni, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 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
  • Perry’s personal assistant, his friend, and another doctor all agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation as the government sought to make their case against larger targets, Plasencia and Sangha.
    Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
  • Joe Hubbard ’s administrative assistant was fired from her position on March 28, according to court documents.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Former Pflugerville Police Chief Jason O’Malley pointed a gun at a subordinate inside a police building this year, according to a third-party investigation that spurred O'Malley and two commanders to exit the force.
    Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 31 July 2025
  • Why this is happening is clear from a radio intercept about a similar incident, shared with CNN, in which a Russian commander can clearly be heard ordering a subordinate be tied up in this way as punishment for desertion.
    Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Make Empathy a Leadership Imperative Move beyond seeing team members as job titles or cogs in a machine.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • That, in turn, opened up cap space for the Nuggets to trade for center Jonas Valanciunas, sign 3-point specialist Tim Hardaway Jr., and re-up with Bruce Brown, a vital, popular cog of the ’23 NBA champs.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 July 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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