legman

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Recent Examples of legman To sidestep the reservation scrum, particularly at a hundred and fifty of the city’s buzziest restaurants, a new squad of businesses, tech impresarios, and digital legmen has sprung up, offering to help diners cut through the reservation red tape, for a price. Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024 As a young legman, whose job was to file notes to senior reporters, Bernstein was at the White House when Kennedy’s coffin was returned in the early-morning hours after his assassination. Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legman
Noun
  • Since Julia’s arrival at Castle Leathers, Davina Porter (Sara Vickers), the long-time servant of Lord Lovat and the mother of Brian, has suspected that Julia is pregnant.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The first such center was established in Taylor, Michigan, with others eventually popping up in Florida, Texas and Missouri — all of them making money off the backs of servants who allegedly were forced to work for free.
    Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Participants would complete a physical fitness test, have their body fat measured, undergo a psychological evaluation, receive leadership evaluations from former peers and subordinates, and complete verbal and written communication assessments.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The heat on Nestlé is shifting from its CEO, who was fired this week for having an undisclosed affair with a subordinate, to its board, whose initial, apparently cursory, investigation failed to uncover evidence that a later probe uncovered.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ella Beaty will play Lizzie, while Rebecca Hall will play Lizzie’s stepmother, Abby, and Vicky Krieps will play Bridget Sullvan, a maid in the Borden household.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then, during World War II, at the age of 8, Anderson learned to knit from her mother and grandmother, who belonged to a knitting auxiliary, creating sweaters, vests, bed socks and more.
    Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Baraka was a central figure of the Black Arts Literary Movement — the cultural auxiliary to the 1960s Black Power movement, according to NorthJersey.com, part of the USA TODAY Network.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Unlike the last two prime ministers, Lecornu has been a loyal lieutenant at the center of the president’s project in government, Lazar said.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The implication is that Walsingham, or one of his lieutenants, trained Marlowe to play with fire and, in the process, put fire in the belly of the plays.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This past July, the conservative advocacy group America First Legal requested a federal investigation of the chain due to its alleged discrimination against white employees.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, several recent studies have found higher rates of skin cancers among airline employees and frequent travelers.
    Kristy Alpert, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When his underlings spew hate about the Golden State on Fox News and social media?
    Gustavo Arellano, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Recast versions of his Romulan underlings also appear on the bridge of his Bird of Prey.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Dia browser, a simpler option that allows people to chat with an AI assistant about multiple browser tabs at once, became available in beta in June.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Though the pair eventually found employment—Kornfeind as a trade compliance specialist and Raines as an administrative assistant at their alma mater—these accounts of the gauntlet facing recent college graduates are far from unique.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Legman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legman. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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