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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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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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Those who came to Ingersoll to establish a new life for themselves pursued jobs as laborers, barbers and waiters, among other professions.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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New jobs for construction laborers--tasked with using, supplying or holding materials or tools and cleaning work areas and equipment on construction sites--are expected to increase by nearly 120,000 by 2033, with an annual growth rate of seven percent.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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But cooperation between the builders of Aegis destroyers takes the alliance to a higher level.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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One giant got distracted by a wandering minstrel One giant overslept and started late Clues: Brumm is not the fastest builder but didn’t oversleep.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 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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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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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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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workman. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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