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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workman
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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
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Building a piano takes Steinway’s skilled craftsmen 11 months from start to finish.—
Joel Williams,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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The daughter of a father who worked as an autoworker and handyman and a mother who worked as a beautician, Cheeks Kilpatrick was a Detroit public schools teacher for almost a decade before entering politics.—
Clara Hendrickson,
Freep.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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On a Monday morning that August, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian handyman who had briefly worked at the Louvre, donned his old uniform, walked into the museum and, when the coast was clear, took the painting right off the wall.—
NPR,
NPR,
20 Oct. 2025
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In the early twentieth century, two groups of Indians living in America, young intellectuals and working-class laborers, had very different experiences of the country.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Nov. 2025
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The actions of delivery truck drivers, warehouse laborers and many others can be tracked and sifted, too.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Next, the base is Olive and June’s builder gel color in the shade Blush Jelly, adding Bachik’s own brand Cosmic Chrome collection in the color Aurora.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
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No fewer than twenty Vinted alumni have already founded new startups, to the delight of Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga, while Nord’s parent company, venture builder and investor Tesonet, is the biggest backer of vibrant local tech complex Cyber City.—
Anna Heim,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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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
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In The Furious, when his daughter Rainy is abducted, humble tradesman Wang Wei is thrust into a deadly underworld of corruption and violence.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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The story centers on Wang Wei, a humble tradesman forced into a violent criminal underworld after his daughter Rainy is kidnapped.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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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
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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 6 Nov. 2025.
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