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Recent Examples of workman
Work was nearing completion on the Baptist church as workmen posed atop the steeple still under construction.
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Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
The defective grandstand was a last-minute add-on; workmen were still hammering it together as people took their seats.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
Florals appeared as embroideries and prints on workman jackets and corduroy pants adding an artisanal touch to the look, as seen in this Rue de Tokyo piece.
—Alex Badia, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025
Investigators after a lengthy probe ruled out arson and determined the fire was probably caused by an accident, either an electrical fault or sparked by a smoldering cigarette left by a workman.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
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Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
The defective grandstand was a last-minute add-on; workmen were still hammering it together as people took their seats.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
Florals appeared as embroideries and prints on workman jackets and corduroy pants adding an artisanal touch to the look, as seen in this Rue de Tokyo piece.
—Alex Badia, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025
Investigators after a lengthy probe ruled out arson and determined the fire was probably caused by an accident, either an electrical fault or sparked by a smoldering cigarette left by a workman.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workman
Noun
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Choose between traditional red brick (well suited for colonial-style homes) or a natural stone retaining wall that may look good with a craftsman exterior.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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It is produced in Saronno, Lombardy (Italy), and craftsmen in Murano (Venice) created its faceted glass bottle.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
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To know how Scottie Scheffler plots his way around Augusta National is to understand how a handyman tackles a leaky pipe.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Their dad is their handyman — and built them a small venue for weddings — and their mom loves to come over to work in the garden.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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Engels wrote about the emergence of this group of laborers in his 1845 book, The Condition of the Working Class in England.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025
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Some came as agricultural, mining or railway laborers; others served in the British administration or in the Brigade of Gorkhas, an organization in the British Army made up of people from Nepal.—
Emily Fishbein, Hpan Ja Brang,
The Dial,
17 Apr. 2025
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Lara’s policy change, now in effect, will undoubtedly endear him to homeowners in high-risk areas (read: voters) and to realtors, mortgage bankers and builders (read: donors) whose revenues all suffer when large swaths of the state are deemed uninsurable deathtraps.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Cramer named stocks in several sectors related to AI buildout: semiconductor companies, data center builders, outfits responsible for servers and networking equipment, power utilities, climate control businesses as well as industrials.—
Julie Coleman,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Each time, the tradesman showed up, only to find no one there.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Immigrants make up about a third, or 32.5%, of construction tradesmen, according to an analysis of 2023 Census data by the National Association of Home Builders.—
Ana Teresa Solá,
CNBC,
18 Dec. 2024
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The book contains funny and terrible things, details and episodes so pungent that they must surely have been stolen from a fantastical artificer like Flann O’Brien.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2022
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The book includes new spells, character subclasses, story options for groups of players, options for creating sidekicks, tools for Dungeon Masters and includes the artificer class of magical inventors.—
Jordan Culver,
USA TODAY,
24 Aug. 2020
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Layoffs, meanwhile, hit wage earners harder than those with multiple income streams or significant investments.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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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
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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workman. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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