Definition of pressmannext
British

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Recent Examples of pressman As print media companies introduced new technology into the workplace at that time, other craft workers, such as stereotypers, bookbinders, and pressmen organized, initially joining ITU. — Errol Salamon, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Mar. 2026 That allowed Boise residents to crowd into the cabin as the two pressmen set type for the first edition of the Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman. — Idaho Statesman, 16 Dec. 2025 But his father, Eugene, a pressman for the local paper, abandoned the family when Hackman was 13. — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025 Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, and grew up in Danville, Illinois, where his father worked as a pressman for the Commercial-News. — Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pressman
Noun
  • When the casting was announced, a reporter suggested to Roddenberry that by the 24th century, in a time of faster-than-light starships, surely humankind would have found a cure for male pattern baldness, no?
    — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Reid will serve as the news outlet’s chief White House reporter, the latest addition to MS NOW’s journalistic ranks since its split from Comcast nearly a year ago.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The essay convinced me that Woodward stopped being a journalist after his great work with Carl Bernstein during the Watergate fiasco.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • That would be Linda Godfrey, the Janesville, Wisconsin, journalist and cryptozoologist (the study of improbable animals) who died at 71 in 2022.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • On this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR's senior political correspondent Tamara Keith discusses the turbulent and unpredictable political landscape of this years' midterm election.
    — NPR, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026
  • By the early 1930s, 29 hot-type machines pressed reports sent by correspondents around the world.
    — Aaron Glantz, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2026

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“Pressman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pressman. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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