factotum
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is burning up the phone lines to Riyadh, Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Abu Dhabi, Ramallah, and anyplace else where sympathetic leaders and factotums can ignite or help douse the flames.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2023
Municipal directors and factotums had fled along with intelligence agents and shabiha.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018
On the day before opens this year's , the nearby Carlton Hotel has been recast as a chaotic factory of harried PRs and industry factotums.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2013
Now, a reporter trying to interview a business source is confronted by a phalanx of factotums, preconditions and sometimes a requirement that quotations be approved.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2012
I instructed him to find it, and J. B. is one of those perfect factotums who do as they are told.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 by Various
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: fac
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