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
  • But the novel also interweaves a repository of 795 poems throughout its roughly 1,300 pages—each written from the one of 118 separate characters’ perspectives, including mothers, servants, emperors, lovers, and Genji himself.
    Andrew Paul Jul 16, Popular Science, 16 July 2025
  • Shalla-Bal was later crowned the Empress of Zenn-La after Radd sacrificed himself to be enslaved as the servant of the planet eater to save his world from obliteration.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Byron and Cabot’s concert hug rose to internet fame and sparked widespread affair allegations on Thursday after a clip, posted on TikTok, showed the CEO holding his subordinate in his arms at the Gillette Stadium show.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 19 July 2025
  • The disclosure appears to rule out problems with the company’s accounting, mishandling of day-to-day business or questionable conduct with a subordinate.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Molly the maid, by now promoted to head maid at her posh hotel, is on the spectrum, and her literal understanding of the world makes for both funny moments and good insights.
    Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 6 July 2025
  • Could the maid be delivering a letter from another suitor?
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The Women of Dedication luncheon is the signature fundraiser of the women’s auxiliary, which was founded in the 1950s and supports The Salvation Army’s social service programs.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 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
  • In an expositional sense, his death at the end of Batman v Superman activates three Mother Boxes that attracts the villainous Darkseid’s scorned lieutenant, Steppenwolf, back to Earth.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • According to the Use of Force Policy, inmates must be checked every 15 minutes by correctional officers, every two hours by a lieutenant, and twice per 8-hour shift by medical staff.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • As a showrunner, Schneider was alleged to have run a toxic workplace, discriminated against female writers on staff and made requests for massages from employees on set.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2025
  • In an email, an EPA spokesperson said the next step would be sending notices to individual employees.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • After their underlings screwed up the Geneva trade agreement, the two bosses had to get involved which must be frustrating for them.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • Flynn, who is married, also asked for the detective’s underwear, according to the suit, promising her a Commander’s Day — a day off that a supervisor can grant to an underling for exemplary police work, such as a good arrest.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Elia also worked for the Seattle Mariners from 1993-97, 2001-02 and in 2008 as a hitting coach, bench coach and special assistant to the field manager.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025
  • Again, perfect as a new smart assistant and alarm clock in one.
    Nena Farrell, Wired News, 11 July 2025

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“Legman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legman. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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