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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 Japanese craftsman technique was true to the promise of having a quiet, easy-to-put-together setup.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
7 Jan. 2026
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The physical sequence to make a pattern was first programmed by craftsmen using threads or bamboo sticks.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Jan. 2026
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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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Sitting here waiting to call the handyman to get rid of that cactus.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 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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Mayor Bass also secured 17 positions for supply and maintenance staffing, including heavy-duty mechanics, mechanic helpers, tire repairers, maintenance laborers, toolroom workers, truck operators and more.—
Jeff Nguyen,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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An illiterate laborer and cook, Lee joined the Shaking Quaker sect in 1758.—
Claire Messud,
Vogue,
8 Jan. 2026
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The original builder didn’t install any overhead lights during the transformation of an 1880’s sardine factory into eight residential condos.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
10 Jan. 2026
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To reduce sizes, builders are going back to open floor plans with fewer hallways.—
Lew Sichelman,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Muñoz found it in residential painting with his keen eye for detail and wants to help other tradesmen learn the craft and be able to give back, along with helping re-paint Stockton, giving residents some vibrancy in color throughout their homes through this rough time.—
Charlie Lapastora,
CBS News,
29 Dec. 2025
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The opening head-to-toe-navy look, featured here, immediately drove his thinking home, referencing the bleu de travail of French tradesmen and balancing a wider-than-standard cotton knit tie with utilitarian separates rendered in an unexpectedly drapey wool.—
Naomi Rougeau,
Robb Report,
7 Dec. 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 11 Jan. 2026.
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