gandy dancer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gandy dancer
Noun
  • New jobs for construction laborers--tasked with using, supplying or holding materials or tools and cleaning work areas and equipment on construction sites--are expected to increase by nearly 120,000 by 2033, with an annual growth rate of seven percent.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Those who came to Ingersoll to establish a new life for themselves pursued jobs as laborers, barbers and waiters, among other professions.
    Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Here again, rising energy costs were felt more keenly by wage earners than stockbrokers because buying gasoline and heating their homes constitutes a much larger percentage of their take-home pay.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The European Union’s sales targets for electric vehicles in 2030 and 2035 look impossible, despite the imminent arrival of EVs like BYD of China’s cut-price Surf, likely to be affordable, finally, for average wage earners.
    Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The family-friendly spot features a weekly selection of 20 beers, ciders, and seltzers, plus a menu of creative pub grub ranging from buffalo chicken eggrolls to brisket dumplings served with beer cheese.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The gastropub will also serve burgers and other pub grub.
    Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The source of the hack has not yet been identified.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • While the number of outages appeared to decline, Spotify posted on social media that rumors of a hack were misguided.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 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
  • In October, Microsoft added support for Anthropic’s Sonnet model in its GitHub Copilot assistant, and weeks later, some programmers reported that Cursor was preferable to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Now, Amy Borghesi is charged with stealing cash from school fundraisers throughout her two-year employment as an administrative assistant at Murphy Elementary School, according to school officials and court documents filed on April 15.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But even those modest gains quickly evaporated amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as Trump blamed China for the outbreak and allowed his subordinates wide latitude to pursue aggressive policies toward Beijing.
    Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Waltz also indulged in several of the histrionic television appearances that Trump demands of his subordinates.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • New York had rested three key cogs in OG Anunoby, Mitchell Robinson and Josh Hart, making the loss palatable.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
  • External derailleurs—the fiddly fragile mechanisms that shift a chain between cogs—are easily damaged, are hard to service in the field, and don’t work well in muddy or dusty conditions.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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