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legmen

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plural of legman

as in subordinates

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And, one of Thompson’s subordinates knew that Rusinowski may have been stealing meds a month before Thompson found out and didn’t say anything, the attorneys stated.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
Trump’s subordinates have been hinting for months that ICE agents or other federal officers may turn up at polling places on Election Day.

— Barton Gellman, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

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Banks paid millions of dollars by today’s standards to bring along a botanist, artists, servants, his greyhound and scientific equipment.

— Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
The remains of these servants, or retainers, were first excavated from the funerary complexes at Abydos, eastern Egypt, which date from around 3000 BC, in the 1920s.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

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In David’s 1996 novel Absolute Power, an American president presumes himself to be above the rule of law and seeks to force his underlings to commit criminal acts that will benefit him.

— David Baldacci, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026
His Picard is authoritative, with none of the friendly push and pull with his underlings that Kirk had.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of underlings

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Parks workers who don't comply with the new policy could face discipline, officials said, adding, the policy also instructs them to not engage in any verbal or physical altercations with ICE agents.

— Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
People who earn at least 50,000 pounds ($67,000) a year will only have to wait five years, as will public-sector workers including doctors, nurses and teachers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of workers

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The chore jacket became a signature style of one Harry Styles, who has long been a champion of the humble bleu de travail, the blue cotton work jacket originally worn by French laborers.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2026
The whole system is essentially policed by the Department of Labor to ensure that foreign workers don't undercut domestic laborers.

— Nina Totenberg, NPR, 10 Nov. 2026

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There was a procession to the church of white clad handmaidens (tärnor), star boys (stjärngossar) and gingerbread men (pepparkaksgubbar) with candle wreaths on the maidens’ heads – now battery powered rather than actual flames.

— Natasha Langan, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026
Did Penelope, Helen of Troy, Athena, Calypso, and the rest of the Greek gals and goddesses deserve to be more epic than the attractive but flattened handmaidens even IMAX couldn’t enhance?

— Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026

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