gandy dancer

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Noun
  • Brahmins, who were traditionally priests, sit at the top, followed by warriors, merchants, and laborers – each further divided into thousands of subcategories.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The minimum wage standards required of firms receiving CHIPS funding, for example, could have been applied to all categories of workers, not just to laborers and mechanics.
    Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, rising household incomes, economic expansion, pension reform, and adjustments to the healthcare system have allowed more households to exist with just one wage earner.
    Rocio Wu, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • By August 2022, lower wage earners were averaging 7% yearly pay increases compared to 4.5% for the higher earners, the Atlanta Fed data shows.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Locavore Bar & Grill doles out casual gourmet grub from a food truck, with indoor/outdoor seating and a buzzy atmosphere that includes a full-service bar.
    Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • To start and end the day, visitors can dig into gourmet grub created by the ranch's on-site chef, Brian Doyle; his dishes are meant to evoke the spirit of the West and involve plenty of prime cuts and fresh fish.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Experts universally agree that AI security focuses on protecting models from external threats like hacks, data breaches and model poisoning.
    Sam Sabin, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Through the first four months of 2024, Web3 projects had already lost over $401 million to various hacks and attacks.
    Dmitry Mishunin, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Read full article 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
  • Some examples of how entry-level roles are shifting: Jobs that used to be widely available include data entry clerks, call center representatives, and administrative assistants.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Lee Thomas, who until last June led the United Administrators of Oakland Schools — which represents site administrators, assistant principals and coaches, among other officials — accused the board of seeking to violate the union’s collective bargaining agreement.
    Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The dissent among the top ranks of Mr. Trump’s administration was rare for a president whose demands for absolute loyalty have resulted in dramatic executive actions by his subordinates, all acting in lock step to quickly push through Mr. Trump’s agenda.
    Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Those instances would include fraternization within a unit, anything involving an assault or a relationship between a service member and a subordinate’s civilian spouse.
    Tara Copp, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Finding the sweet spot between having Smith’s number called and being a cog in the machine, regardless of whatever defensive scheme is thrown their way.
    Kelly Iko, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • That, coupled with the rising competition from China in the automotive sector – a huge cog in the economic machine of Germany – and a looming trade crisis with a belligerent Trump administration are all worrying prospects.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Gandy dancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gandy%20dancer. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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