as in beautician
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a person whose job is to give beauty treatments to women by washing and cutting hair, applying makeup, etc.
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Recent Examples of cosmetologist
Budget cuts Parents who want to save some money by cutting their kids’ hair can put away the bowls: The Campbell Express Library is hosting a hairstylist and licensed cosmetologist with over 20 years of experience who will demonstrate how anyone can cut hair.
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Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 22 June 2025
The style was designed and executed by hair cosmetologist Lesley-ann Snobb.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Future Bound Independent Study graduates Parker Cooley, 18, and Savannah Vergara, 17, are planning careers as an esthetician and cosmetologist, respectively.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2025
So rather than having to pay up front for schooling, cosmetologists and barbers can start earning money quickly and work their way up the ladder.
—Andrew Wimer, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
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Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 22 June 2025
The style was designed and executed by hair cosmetologist Lesley-ann Snobb.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Future Bound Independent Study graduates Parker Cooley, 18, and Savannah Vergara, 17, are planning careers as an esthetician and cosmetologist, respectively.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2025
So rather than having to pay up front for schooling, cosmetologists and barbers can start earning money quickly and work their way up the ladder.
—Andrew Wimer, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for cosmetologist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmetologist
Noun
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Six-year-olds spend within approximately 17 categories, but by age 15, this expands to 185 categories, including services from beauticians and barbers to record stores and country clubs.—
Rupert Lee-Browne,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Working as a beautician, drifting between men, and moving through life without clear rhyme or reason, her character is abrasive, unexpected, and revelatory to encounter on screen.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
17 May 2025
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If all that counts is inward essence, what the hell were those teams of makeup artists, coiffeurs, and cinematographers employed by the major studios, in the golden age, doing all day?—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2024
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Toussaint, who was literate, socially adroit and a talented fiddler, was apprenticed as a coiffeur and was permitted to keep some of his earnings; Schuyler and her sister-in-law, Eliza Hamilton — the wife of Alexander Hamilton — were among his earliest clients.—
Elizabeth Stone,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2024
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“Cosmetologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmetologist. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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