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
Among the nearly 70 occupations that qualify are restaurant servers, gig workers, barbers, cosmetologists and golf caddies.
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Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Maria worked at a cafe and wanted to be a cosmetologist, and Isabella acted in high school and community theater and sang with choral groups, according to the girls’ online obituaries.
—New York Times, 4 Oct. 2025
And a Mass was held Friday for Maria, who was remembered as an aspiring cosmetologist who worked at a local cafe in her obituary.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Some of the occupations included in the ranking are barbers, cosmetologists, funeral directors, piping contractors, and real estate appraisers.
—Adam A. Millsap, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Maria worked at a cafe and wanted to be a cosmetologist, and Isabella acted in high school and community theater and sang with choral groups, according to the girls’ online obituaries.
—New York Times, 4 Oct. 2025
And a Mass was held Friday for Maria, who was remembered as an aspiring cosmetologist who worked at a local cafe in her obituary.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Some of the occupations included in the ranking are barbers, cosmetologists, funeral directors, piping contractors, and real estate appraisers.
—Adam A. Millsap, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cosmetologist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmetologist
Noun
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Throughout the summer, celebrity beautician Iván Pol acts as resident facialist.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Mar. 2026
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His mother, Helen Burns, was a beautician, and his father, Noah Robinson, wasa worker whose job entailed grading the quality of cotton.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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 31 Mar. 2026.
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