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The squirrel is now running away from the groundsman who is chasing it.—Craig Chisnall, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026 Training is over for the day and the ground is empty, apart from groundsman Paul Chaloner and his staff beavering away on the pitch.—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025 Murphy currently looks up to one of the lead groundsmen at the club.—Asif Burhan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 In the grand cemeteries, where gardeners and groundsmen keep the avenues swept, the parts visitors favour are often far away from the starker, newer memorials, in odd corners or wooded patches where weeds have been allowed to rampage.—1843, 21 May 2020