workman

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Recent Examples of workman Kurt Jordan said that the town was in danger of losing its workman’s compensation insurance in January 2024 because his wife couldn’t get the payroll records from the fire corporation. Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025 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 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
  • The workshop is like a metalsmith’s laboratory, where craftsmen skilled in traditional goldsmithing techniques constantly experiment with new materials and methods.
    Jill Newman, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Building a piano takes Steinway’s skilled craftsmen 11 months from start to finish.
    Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 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
  • Kirk, played by Sean Gunn, was the Stars Hollow jack-of-all-trades, often taking on odd jobs around town, working at the beauty shop, being a handyman and even serving as a short film director.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In the first part, Pino recruited Bayron Bennett, a handyman who provided services for his yacht excursions.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But, at large scales, laborers (who themselves are often poorly treated) are often paid by volume and are likely to work as quickly as possible which leads to mistreatment.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Maricopa County deputies, after getting 287(g) certified in 2007, carried out 11 immigration sweeps within five months outside a former furniture store in Phoenix that was a popular gathering spot for laborers.
    Rafael Carranza, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Denver’s young quarterback needs a confidence builder come Sunday.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Deverell consulted with model ship builder Matthew Betts to ensure the historical accuracy of the build.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Oct. 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
  • During the summer of 1768, a riot broke out in Boston, led by laborers, tradesmen, and sailors protesting against these unjust policing practices.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Throughout the 1950s, Volkswagen’s Type 2 microbus was hardly a collectible, but rather a tradesman’s workhorse, or a wholesome weekend motel on wheels for families camping mostly across Europe and North America.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 19 Sep. 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 23 Oct. 2025.

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