scullion

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Recent Examples of scullion Our winsome scamp loves all women, from scullion to lady, though his heart belongs to the plucky Sophia, who is given can-do determination by Elena Wang. Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 26 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scullion
Noun
  • Son Heung-min has been a tremendous servant to the club, but at 32, his influence appears to be waning.
    Robert Kidd, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • In the background, a servant peels back a curtain to deliver a basket of fruit.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • He’s shown sitting in an armchair next to his similarly dressed daughter, who is giving him a handful of flowers; just behind them is a maid placing a basket of fruit.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • At the time of her killing, Curran was working part time as a maid at the local Colonial Motor Inn, which, according to VTDigger, is located near Bundy’s birthplace in Burlington.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This helps explain why the maidservant was subjected to multiple inspections, with a succession of witnesses rooting around beneath Hall’s skirts and petticoats for firm proof.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • In 1627, a professional lace-maker named Thomasine Hall boarded a ship in England and arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, to become a maidservant in the household of a man named John Tyos.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • In addition to Disney, Sony movie chief Tom Rothman and his top distribution lieutenant said Monday at CinemaCon that such short windows pose a threat to theatrical.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Since then, Johnson and his lieutenants have been searching for ways to stop the resolution from reaching the floor, as top lawmakers argue proxy voting is unconstitutional.
    Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
  • No poaching, only growing Earlier this month, Villasenor started working as a technician apprentice at Gene Butman Ford in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
    Jamie L. LaReau, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) After making her small screen debut aged eight, a 14-year-old Knightley entered the big leagues in George Lucas’s sci-fi epic, as a dutiful handmaiden to the pale-faced queen (Natalie Portman), who serves as her steely decoy.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2025
  • However, like the original, it’s also grounded in the paranoia, compromises, and drudgery that are the handmaidens of intelligence work.
    Andy Meek, airmail.news, 23 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Grimes was a graduate assistant under Lou Holtz from 1981-82.
    Michael Harley, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Donovan was the lead assistant for the Wildcats during a 1993 run to the Final Four.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • On Gecko’s Garage, the titular Gecko repairs fire trucks, a helicopter, and even Santa’s sleigh alongside his three helper robots, called the mechanicals.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Mother’s little helper The urge—the desperate, frantic, all-consuming urge—to get a child to fall sleep is familiar to many parents.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Scullion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scullion. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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