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Recent Examples of workman
The defective grandstand was a last-minute add-on; workmen were still hammering it together as people took their seats.
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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
Navy workman jackets appeared in the lockers of Chargers players.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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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
Navy workman jackets appeared in the lockers of Chargers players.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workman
Noun
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Bernard is an amateur craftsman, as was his father.—
Emilien Hofman (Tr. Elettra Pauletto),
The Dial,
20 Mar. 2025
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The watch industry has witnessed a surge in micro brands in recent years, where enthusiasts, designers, and craftsmen have turned their love for watches into business venture.—
Bhanu Chopra,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 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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Among them are José Arroyo, a disabled former master technician, Corrine Griffith, a disabled woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder and epilepsy and Michael Austin, a homeless handyman who lives in a tent with a spring mattress to help his arthritic back.—
Kyle Martin,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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Michael Clark, a handyman who works on Bourbon Street, said his friends and co-workers felt traumatized by the attack.—
Kate Selig,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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The exploitation of enslaved laborers on cane plantations increased supply and decreased production costs.—
Nina Foster,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Mar. 2025
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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
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This wet/dry shop vacuum can pick up your builder's mess, delint the dryer, pick up soot around the fireplace and clean the car.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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There’s no such thing as a fireproof house, yet, but that hasn’t stopped one builder from trying.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 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
Noun
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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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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
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Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workman. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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