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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 Work is ongoing — a frenzy of hard hats, fluorescent-jacketed workmen and whirring machinery.—Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024 In the Act One climax, one of the workmen, Polish poet Joe Pakulski (Devin Cortez), falls to his death, leaving behind his pregnant wife, an Indigenous woman named Rudy (also Kabeary) who has been working beside him on the high beams.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for workman
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of workman was
before the 12th century
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