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Recent Examples of workman
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.
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Alex Badia, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025
Investigators after a lengthy probe ruled out arson and determined the fire was probably caused by an accident, either an electrical fault or sparked by a smoldering cigarette left by a workman.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
Navy workman jackets appeared in the lockers of Chargers players.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
The workmen who installed them botched the installation.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2024
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Alex Badia, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025
Investigators after a lengthy probe ruled out arson and determined the fire was probably caused by an accident, either an electrical fault or sparked by a smoldering cigarette left by a workman.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
Navy workman jackets appeared in the lockers of Chargers players.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
The workmen who installed them botched the installation.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workman
Noun
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Now this may be simply because a few uniquely talented craftsman build each Torpedo by hand on a small Swedish island where their ancestors have literally been building boats for more than 1000 years.—
Bill Springer,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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About 5,000 years ago, an ancient craftsman in modern-day central England picked up a piece of flint.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 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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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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Among them are José Arroyo, a disabled former master technician, Corrine Griffith, a disabled woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder and epilepsy and Michael Austin, a homeless handyman who lives in a tent with a spring mattress to help his arthritic back.—
Kyle Martin,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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Michael Clark, a handyman who works on Bourbon Street, said his friends and co-workers felt traumatized by the attack.—
Kate Selig,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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Without its central industry, it’s become a ghost town, and one where the era of Harmony and her old friend (played by character actor James LeGros) working as child laborers(*) for Lumon comparatively feel like the good old days.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
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A week later, Chinese laborers returned to Rock Springs and soon resumed coal production.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Looking for a builder, architect, or interior designer in your area for a home renovation or new build?—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
19 Mar. 2025
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The March survey revealed that builders see the tariffs potentially boosting prices by $9,200 per home, according to Robert Dietz, the group’s chief economist.—
Bloomberg,
Orange County Register,
17 Mar. 2025
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Each time, the tradesman showed up, only to find no one there.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Immigrants make up about a third, or 32.5%, of construction tradesmen, according to an analysis of 2023 Census data by the National Association of Home Builders.—
Ana Teresa Solá,
CNBC,
18 Dec. 2024
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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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Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
16 Mar. 2025
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With growing numbers of wage earners returning to offices, emerging work campuses are gaining fresh attention.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Workman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workman. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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