workman

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Recent Examples of workman Six months later, Nadja was discovered screaming in terror in the corridor of her hotel, having seen men on the roof (in an ironic echo of a scene Breton reports in the book—and which might in fact have been workmen on the neighboring rooftop, rather than the hallucination commonly supposed). Mark Polizzoti june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025 The workman had no visible signs of trauma that would have killed him. Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025 According to workmen at the site, repairs are expected to take a week to 10 days. Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025 Olsen is wearing an oversized black workman’s jacket, very similar to, if not an exact piece from The Row in a different color. Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for workman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workman
Noun
  • China has already established Luban workshops, named after a legendary craftsman, in more than 20 countries, including Thailand, India and Portugal.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Kōetsu’s artistic community of craftsmen was supported by wealthy merchant patrons of the Nichiren Buddhist sect at Takagamine.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
    Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
  • Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Seubert worked for more than two decades as a handyman for a man who owned Chicago apartment buildings.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • When her fiancé arrived, the handyman ended up needing a trip to the hospital himself, according to police.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, blue-collar or trade laborers are expected to remain essential.
    Eyal Lifshitz, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • On the Mauser Packaging Solutions plant floor, laborers do the dirty work of reconditioning steel containers used to transport chemicals.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With intuitive builders, templates, automations, and attention to integrations, Sender helps teams get started quickly and transition between platforms with confidence.
    William Jones, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • French rocket builder and ArianeGroup subsidiary MaiaSpace announced the completion of a monthslong test campaign that subjected several subscale prototypes of its propellant tanks to high-pressure burst tests, European Spaceflight reports.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Reminiscent of the Row or the elegant workingwoman aesthetic of Celine’s Phoebe Philo era, the clothes are instantly covetable.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • The new had to be just as bold, and so Schultze & Weaver Architects hired the best American tradesmen, all from New York, to puzzle the pieces together.
    Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2025
  • The Midnight Madness section also has a first look for Kenji Tanigaki’s martial arts action thriller The Furious, where a simple tradesman, played by Chinese star Xie Miao, battles a web of criminals and evil agents to rescue his kidnapped daughter.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • The book contains funny and terrible things, details and episodes so pungent that they must surely have been stolen from a fantastical artificer like Flann O’Brien.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The book includes new spells, character subclasses, story options for groups of players, options for creating sidekicks, tools for Dungeon Masters and includes the artificer class of magical inventors.
    Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2020

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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workman. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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