jack-of-all-trades

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Recent Examples of jack-of-all-trades Many scouts compared Williams to Cordarrelle Patterson, a versatile, jack-of-all-trades who’s carved out a 12-year career with six NFL teams. Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025 These and so many more uses make the pantry staple a real jack-of-all-trades around the house. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2025 Offers More Well-Rounded Value In A Startup Environment In the startup world, being a jack-of-all-trades is better. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 Can Dilute Marketing Impact In the world of marketing, a jack-of-all-trades is a master of none. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jack-of-all-trades
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jack-of-all-trades
Noun
  • Twelve percent have master’s degrees or higher, compared with 14% nationally.
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2025
  • The Skokie native works at Google and recently graduated from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management with a master’s degree in business administration, according to her campaign.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • There are a few items our experts say are acceptable to hang up or place on a drying rack to dry naturally instead of tossing in the dryer.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 27 June 2025
  • An in-house team of economic experts at Anthropic plan to award 20 to 50 global research grants of up to $50,000 each, and provide free access to Anthropic’s AI products to assist in the analysis.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • He’s been a glamorous Visual Kei rock star, a classical composer, a virtuoso behind the drum kit, a producer and label owner and entrepreneur, and now, more than ever, an impresario.
    Steve Appleford, Variety, 17 June 2025
  • Little Feat, the archetypal ’70s band originally formed by Lowell George — a guitar virtuoso fired from the Mothers of Invention by Frank Zappa — has survived years of breakups, drug problems and even George’s untimely death in 1979.
    Dave Brooks, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There were additional engines, a hotshot crew and aircraft en route to the fire Wednesday evening.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
  • But hotshot crews are assigned to the toughest parts of a fireline, and sometimes have to hike the farthest, or do the most grueling labor, tackle kind of the most dangerous assignment.
    Meredith Wolf Schizer, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Lee did return at the age of 18 and grew into the iconic martial artist and film star known across the world.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 29 June 2025
  • The effort is following in the footsteps of the Lake Effect project that was launched in 2013 and brought around 40 artists to the Miller Beach Arts & Creative District to transform 19 walls and alleys into canvases.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The best Amazon coffee makers are high quality and cater to everyone from connoisseurs to brewing newbies.
    Sarah Madaus, Architectural Digest, 20 June 2025
  • Like sommeliers who make wine accessible to novices while satisfying connoisseurs, effective tech leaders communicate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
    Dennis Kozak, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Each team has 11 players made up of specialist batters and bowlers plus all-rounders (players that can bat and bowl proficiently, or bat and be the wicket-keeper, the player from the bowling team stationed immediately behind the stumps).
    Rob Tanner, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • Not as an all-rounder everywhere, but as a conductor in the final third.
    Philipp Lahm, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Slot shares this staple of Tottenham counterpart Ange Postecoglou’s attacking principles, with Porro adept at tucking inside to disrupt the opposition shape.
    Andy Jones, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The result is that just these English words, representing just this original document, make for a new and somewhat undiscovered book, even to Marxist adepts.
    Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025

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