deliveryman
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For example, he might opt to pick up groceries ordered through the app Instacart to save on fees and tipping a deliveryman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
But the movie is really about Murphy’s quietly anguished coal deliveryman, Bill, and his deepening crisis of conscience.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
He continued his studies in Kentucky, at the University of Kentucky and then University of Louisville, and worked as a pizza deliveryman to help with tuition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
In 2019, she helped personally represent a Black bicycle deliveryman in a racially charged case in which he was accused of fatal stabbing a white real estate developer in Philadelphia.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
I can’t believe it—Benefo is asleep, sitting on his porch and waiting for the deliveryman to pick up his packages.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The bicycle remained an essential part of Rwandan life, from competitive city teams to weekday commuters to deliverymen pedaling tall cans of milk over cratered dirt roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
As Cho's script explains in the expository dump that is the opening episode, deliverymen are highly skilled fighters-for-hire, able to outrun or fend off marauding bands of hunters.
From Salon ● May 13, 2023
Mr. Fofana buys his ice from a nearby plant, and on a recent morning there a steady stream of sweaty deliverymen in sleeveless shirts piled up ice bags on wheelbarrows.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2022
In its absence, people buy gallons of water from deliverymen like Wissam al-Talawi, who took the only job he could find to support his family.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
One morning two deliverymen carried a jukebox in the front door.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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