gandy dancer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gandy dancer
Noun
  • The exploitation of enslaved laborers on cane plantations increased supply and decreased production costs.
    Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which compiled data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, also reported that in 2023, women comprised 4.3% of workers in construction and extraction occupations, which include construction laborers, carpenters and electricians.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 27 Mar. 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
  • But all these years later, the hacks saw an opportunity to avenge Shelley Joseph.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Ahead, shop button-down styles inspired by mom’s favorite fashion hack.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There’s real love out there for his performance, and his journey from child star to behind-the-scenes jobber to indie heartthrob is the type of narrative that voters can get behind.
    Vulture, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Gosewich then left the business before its expansion to join Sherman’s Records chain and rack-jobber covering eastern Canada.
    Karen Bliss, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2019
Noun
  • Grimes was a graduate assistant under Lou Holtz from 1981-82.
    Michael Harley, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Donovan was the lead assistant for the Wildcats during a 1993 run to the Final Four.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The move backfired: the bank’s board of governors, on which China remains an observer, removed Claver-Carone after allegations of improper behavior involving a subordinate.
    MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The grocer disclosed what McMullen didn’t do: The company said McMullen's conduct didn't affect the company’s accounting or involve mishandling of day-to-day business or involve questionable conduct with a subordinate.
    Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Featuring a record-breaking 41 complications (functions that go beyond basic time-telling), the Solaria somehow packs a constellation of metal cogs, levers and springs into a 45-millimeter circle of white gold.
    Alex Doak, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Kilmer plays Nick Rivers, a dashing rock ’n’ roller in the Elvis Presley mold who becomes an unwitting cog in a plot to reunite Germany when he is sent to perform at a cultural festival.
    Hank Sanders, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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