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forewoman

[fawr-woom-uhn, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌwʊm ən, ˈfoʊr- /


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The jury forewoman, a retired fifth-grade teacher, said in an interview with NBC that Desronvil had admitted he had reasonable doubt, but refused to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

He didn’t appear to react when the jury forewoman announced the verdict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The jury forewoman said Jennifer Crumbley wasn’t a “super reliable witness.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

“We all felt Mr. Lynch intended well,” Kitty Meese, the jury forewoman, told reporters, including one from The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

We have never heard a word respecting her dishonesty since she left us, and she now occupies a responsible position as forewoman in a Broadway store.

From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace

A study of the previous experience of foremen and forewomen made by the survey shows that they come from nearly every department of the factory.

From Wage Earning and Education by Rufus Rolla Lutz

They were hand-and-glove with the forewomen, asked them to breakfast at their country houses, knelt to old Spricht as if he were the Pope himself.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall

In every kitchen there is a forewoman cook—there are these forewomen in every department of the work of the women, and they correspond rather to the "noncoms" among the men.

From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

He began with closer individual supervision by the forewomen.

From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Walter Dill Scott

Under the deacons are "care-takers," who are the foremen and forewomen in the different pursuits.

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff


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