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Recent Examples of workman
In and out of the house the workmen go all day, their boots crunching on the Ram Board over my rugs.
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Lauren Groff, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2025
While subsequent generations would analyze cinema as entirely psychological, Benjamin reminds us of the critical spatial conditions of the workman’s Kino and the public planetarium.
—Caroline A. Jones, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2025
The brazen daytime heist at the museum last Sunday stunned France, when four men, dressed as workmen, broke in through an upper floor window using a ladder on a moving truck.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
Two women take a selfie next to a mural by artist Banksy of a workman removing a star from the EU flag near the ferry terminal in Dover, Kent, in 2017.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
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Lauren Groff, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2025
While subsequent generations would analyze cinema as entirely psychological, Benjamin reminds us of the critical spatial conditions of the workman’s Kino and the public planetarium.
—Caroline A. Jones, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2025
The brazen daytime heist at the museum last Sunday stunned France, when four men, dressed as workmen, broke in through an upper floor window using a ladder on a moving truck.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
Two women take a selfie next to a mural by artist Banksy of a workman removing a star from the EU flag near the ferry terminal in Dover, Kent, in 2017.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workman
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In the early 2000s the property was restored by the La Sultana hotel group, in partnership with the Department of Historic Monuments, who employed expert master craftsmen to bring the riads back to their former elegance using centuries-old methods.—
Harriet Elton,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Feb. 2026
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Our great Midwestern heartland was built by German farmers and craftsmen who transformed empty plains into a global agricultural powerhouse.—
Rob Schmitz,
NPR,
16 Feb. 2026
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Where to eat and drink in Kansas City Barbecue Barbecue is an everyday affair in Kansas City: a workingman’s (and workmanlike) tradition that prioritizes adaptation over aesthetics.—
Liz Cook,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 Jan. 2026
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For the average farmer, the global financial crisis and the reaction to it crystalized the idea that an elite financial cabal was putting the interests of bankers above the interests of the workingman.—
David McWilliams,
Fortune,
16 Nov. 2025
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Elizabeth Smart’s infamous 2002 kidnapping in Utah was carried out by a man later identified as a handyman who had previously worked at the family’s home.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Her husband, Jim, gave up on his fledgling handyman business and started looking for a job with insurance coverage.—
Renuka Rayasam,
Miami Herald,
2 Feb. 2026
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Few accessories are so simple as the beanie, whose provenance can be traced back to a simple woolen cap worn by laborers in the late Medieval period.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
16 Feb. 2026
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Just 36 hours later, the slave laborers and Berger-Moran, newly born, were loaded onto open coal wagons — filthy and open to the skies.—
Lesley Stahl,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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In the same period, builders have added 55 multifamily apartment complexes.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Feb. 2026
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Interestingly, the concrete differed from standard Roman concrete, as these ancient builders combined tuff, basalt, and limestone, Archaeology News reports.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2026
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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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But about 20 lawsuits by banks, contractors, tradesmen and angry would-be homebuyers will continue to work their way through the state court system.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
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These prosecutions targeting hardworking American tradesmen were wrongheaded from the start.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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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 22 Feb. 2026.
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