plumber

Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, a senior who works as a public-health scientist, called a plumber when she started feeling sick from fumes in her Washington, D.C., home—a smell she described as “like feces.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Even though people are willing to spend $5,000 on a toilet, they end up hiring a plumber who doesn’t install it properly, which becomes an expensive mistake, Linn said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

A handsome plumber was as likely to get in as a couture-clad socialite; once inside, he might find himself chatting up Mick Jagger or dancing with Liza Minnelli.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The plumber was sent to a fearsome maximum-security prison in Eswatini -- formerly known as Swaziland -- where he is still being held without charge a year later.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

Were Alpert a plumber, he would be just as exacting and thorough and knowledgeable about the ways of the marketplace.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Home Depot devised a strategy of hiring former professional tradespeople en masse—carpenters, plumbers, electricians—to staff stores as their salespeople.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

But they were also musicians and scientists and doctors and plumbers and farmers and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and very often children.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Nationwide, employers are struggling to fill around 160 types of jobs, ranging from careworkers to plumbers, according to the FEA.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

A sort of community in miniature emerged, with security and scavenger teams and plumbers and one lone doctor running an overpacked infirmary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Road-menders and plumbers never went to work with umbrellas.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl