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Recent Examples of legman
In 1980, Deeb moved to the Chicago Sun-Times, where the renowned media columnist Robert Feder worked with him as a legman.
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Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
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
Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
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
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Benedict must pretend his new addition to his mother's household is nothing more to him than a servant.—
Madeline Hirsch,
InStyle,
26 Feb. 2026
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An army of college servants swept river silt from the courtyards.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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With various factions controlled by key lieutenants, some of them close relatives, Oseguera’s moniker has been invoked to instill terror and keep subordinates in line, Craine said.—
Senior Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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She was accused of misbehavior that included mismanaging the budget, failing to carry out personnel instructions and ordering a subordinate to spy by Palmer’s legally privileged email correspondence.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Helen's illiterate mother, who worked as a maid for an affluent white family, poured all her hopes into her single angel of a daughter.—
Gail Sheehy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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As teens, boys apprenticed on farms or with artisans, and girls as dairy maids.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Battleship Auxiliaries Can Boast Weapons, too: In either configuration, these prototype Trump auxiliaries would be high-value targets in a fight.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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During the exorcism, auxiliaries must be vigilant about their words and their behavior.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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That power dynamic was reinforced Thursday when federal prosecutors in San Diego announced narco-terrorism charges and a $5 million bounty for René Arzate Garcia, who is accused of being a violent Sinaloa lieutenant loyal to the Mayitos.—
Alexandra Mendoza,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2026
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Regional reports indicated a high-level meeting of Khamenei’s top lieutenants may have been underway when the strike hit.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Relatives can give up to $5,000 per year to the accounts, and companies can give their employees and employees' children $2,500.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Feb. 2026
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The Zalando prize money helped Gassanoff pay his rent, keep his one employee and two interns, produce the next collection, and compensate the artisans who made it.—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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That’s striking, considering that execs tend to be far more enthusiastic about the tech compared to their underlings.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
19 Feb. 2026
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Despite the scary Instagram post, gang leader Lamar Williams was still convicted this month of a 2013 murder in the Bronx, and the two underlings accused of trying to keep him out of prison could wind up joining him.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Kelly might well have wondered when Pinheiro was sent to the screen by video assistant referee Tomasz Kwiatkowski whether his second booking was about to be overturned.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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Similar to what was depicted in Love Story, his former assistant RoseMarie Terenzio revealed that Kennedy took Bessette out on a fishing boat to pop the question.—
Shelby Wax,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Legman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legman. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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