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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.
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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
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
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Nonetheless, the two become close, to the degree that they are compared to Don Quixote and his faithful servant Sancho Panza.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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Their society was hierarchical, with those below the caciques known as the nitaínos (elites), behiques (perhaps shamans), and the naborías (usually servants and commoners).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Charges The obstruction charge centers on allegations that Comey directed subordinates to remove or conceal those memos from FBI systems after his dismissal in May 2017, actions prosecutors claim impeded a lawful investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified material.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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After his chief of staff Thomas Cook was forced to resign for having a relationship with a subordinate, that subordinate received a promotion and often sat at the table opposite Cook negotiating key economic development deals between the city and private clients Cook represented.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
17 Oct. 2025
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Luckily, Hero is on hand, and as Jerome extends his stay ever longer — hence the 100 nights of the title — Cherry’s maid offers to provide distractions.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
21 Oct. 2025
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Like marmalade, said to be from Marie est malade, the words whispered to a seasick Mary Queen of Scots by her maid, presumably while munching marmalade on toast.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Long before Jane became president of the women’s auxiliary , the Salvation Army helped her with food and clothing.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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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
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Lawrence is rising from her previous role as the top lieutenant to Sobrino-Stearns.—
William Earl,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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The park rangers eventually merged with the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office, where Soptic later became lieutenant of investigations.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
23 Oct. 2025
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Paying the price for the company’s decisions are the 70 full-time park employees and hundreds of seasonal workers, along with the hundreds of thousands of annual guests who will have one less form of affordable entertainment.—
Shannon Pettypiece,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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Intel now counts 88,400 employees—down from 124,100 this time last year.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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The film, which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival, centers on gang underlings who, oddly, compete to avoid becoming the boss while pursuing personal ambitions.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
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The stories involving Olympia’s other underlings, Sarah Franklin (Leah Lewis) and Billy Martinez (David Del Rio), were often minimized and isolated.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Oct. 2025
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After years of a 4-4-2 being the prevailing setup across Europe in the 1990s, former Manchester City assistant manager Juanma Lillo was an early exponent of the 4-2-3-1 system in the early 2000s during his time in Spain.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coding assistants have been some of the early winners of the generative AI rush, becoming the first real application type to attract a hefty number of paying users.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Legman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legman. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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