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The brazen daytime heist at the museum last Sunday stunned France, when four men, dressed as workmen, broke in through an upper floor window using a ladder on a moving truck.
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Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
The workmen complied, and Faulí got down and scuttled through the opening.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Two women take a selfie next to a mural by artist Banksy of a workman removing a star from the EU flag near the ferry terminal in Dover, Kent, in 2017.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Americana and denim go hand in hand, the stiff fabric harkening back to cowboy culture, workmen's uniforms and other mythologized aspects of the national identity.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 31 July 2025
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Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
The workmen complied, and Faulí got down and scuttled through the opening.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Two women take a selfie next to a mural by artist Banksy of a workman removing a star from the EU flag near the ferry terminal in Dover, Kent, in 2017.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Americana and denim go hand in hand, the stiff fabric harkening back to cowboy culture, workmen's uniforms and other mythologized aspects of the national identity.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 31 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for workman
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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workman. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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workman
noun
work·man
ˈwərk-mən 
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: a skilled worker (as an electrician or carpenter)
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