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Recent Examples of workman
The incident caught the world's attention as Japanese workmen repaired the road within a matter of days.
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Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
Work was nearing completion on the Baptist church as workmen posed atop the steeple still under construction.
—Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
The defective grandstand was a last-minute add-on; workmen were still hammering it together as people took their seats.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
Florals appeared as embroideries and prints on workman jackets and corduroy pants adding an artisanal touch to the look, as seen in this Rue de Tokyo piece.
—Alex Badia, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025
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Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
Work was nearing completion on the Baptist church as workmen posed atop the steeple still under construction.
—Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
The defective grandstand was a last-minute add-on; workmen were still hammering it together as people took their seats.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025
Florals appeared as embroideries and prints on workman jackets and corduroy pants adding an artisanal touch to the look, as seen in this Rue de Tokyo piece.
—Alex Badia, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workman
Noun
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Still, Goings has had to confront an existential threat to his business: the aging workforce of carousel craftsmen.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
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Shot on location in the Japanese countryside, the film features production design and practical effects from some of Japan’s top craftsmen.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 May 2025
Noun
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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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This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
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More information is coming to light about the gruesome killing of an 82-year-old Washington state woman who was found buried in concrete inside a shed, leading to the arrest of her handyman.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Investigators said on April 1 that Marcia Norman had dinner with her handyman, Jeffrey Zizz.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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One was a White farmer, while the others were Black laborers or security workers, police said.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
23 May 2025
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Consider android laborers harvesting crops at night while humans engage in creative endeavors by day.—
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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First-generation wealth builders tend to be more frugal, focusing on saving and spending less.—
Monish Verma,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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During that same stretch, most American camper van builders have remained a little too comfortable with closet-like wet bathrooms and deconstructed spaces that break down to stealthy nothingness.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 May 2025
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Many tradesmen whom Whelan had known for years left the industry, and when residential building recovered in the 2010s, few of them returned.—
Marcela Valdes,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Many of these workers are put on residential construction jobs with little or no training and with no experienced tradesman supervising their work.—
Marcela Valdes,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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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The mayor announced a plan last month to eliminate New York City income taxes for more than 400,000 of the lowest wage earners.—
Emma G. Fitzsimmons,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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For wage earners, Social Security and Medicare taxes are called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) and are taken out of your paycheck.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workman. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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