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Recent Examples of workman
The workman had no visible signs of trauma that would have killed him.
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Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
In 1893, workmen laid dynamite charges and started blowing them up.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 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
According to workmen at the site, repairs are expected to take a week to 10 days.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
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Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
In 1893, workmen laid dynamite charges and started blowing them up.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 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
According to workmen at the site, repairs are expected to take a week to 10 days.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workman
Noun
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Synchronicity and synergy at the Peninsula hotel Alex Koch, an actor and craftsman, scored an assortment of carpentry tools from Lynch's home woodshop.—
Emma Bowman,
NPR,
23 June 2025
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The property features furniture by designer Rick Owens and one-of-a-kind decor by local Greek craftsmen.—
Monica Mendal,
Vogue,
15 July 2025
Noun
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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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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
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Late Tuesday afternoon, Luis Pliego, 42, a handyman working to shutter the windows on the charred building with plywood, told the Tribune that the building manager had moved several families to a different building owned by the same company on the Far South Side.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
29 July 2025
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However, in contrast to the vision of free yeoman workers, historians have found that most laborers who arrived on the first ships were either indentured to individual masters or bound by some other kind of contract that limited their freedom.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025
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This was a very common patriotic project for volunteer laborers in late‑war Japan—especially among those either too old or too young to perform more demanding and exacting full‑time war plant work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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Nail artists are using chrome finishes and builder gel to create bespoke, mixed-metal manicures that flout old-school fashion rules and echo what’s happening in the jewelry space.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
8 Aug. 2025
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John Pierce is an entrepreneur with a focus on C-Suite consulting, M&A in the RIA segment, and a builder and leader of high-quality teams.—
John Pierce,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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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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Last month, the overall consumer price index rose 2.7% and the index for urban wage earners increased 2.6%.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
19 July 2025
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While this is touted as a benefit for middle income taxpayers the top end of the threshold of $300,000 of income puts that wage earner in the top 3% of earners in the country.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workman. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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