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As Manchester recounted, “The artist’s eye was uncanny; next morning a team of surveyors found he had been less than six inches off the axis.”

From Salon • May 7, 2026

But though Americans haven’t held back their complaints from surveyors, other signals point to a stretched but resilient consumer economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

That means it couldn’t deploy surveyors to the field to collect the real-time pricing data needed to help generate the inflation index.

From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025

Using light traps, surveyors had been looking for the limnephilus taricus species of caddisfly, but instead found the limnephilus patis, which is even rarer.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

In the early days of the US, some of the “Founding Fathers” worked as surveyors or speculators.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz