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jack-of-all-trades

[jak-uhv-awl-treydz, jak-] / ˌdʒæk əvˈɔlˈtreɪdz, ˈdʒæk- /
NOUN
handy person
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Anunoby had never made an All-Star team, but he was basketball’s ultimate jack-of-all-trades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

He could start by cutting the animated sequence in which Mary, her young charges and Bert, a local jack-of-all-trades, jump into one of Bert’s sidewalk chalk paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Stern described his longtime friend as tremendously talented, a MacGyver and a jack-of-all-trades.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023

Rebecca Miller salvaged the modest furnishings from the studio, including a daybed, a pot-belly wood stove and an old metal office chair that her father, a jack-of-all-trades, insisted on fixing rather than replacing.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2023

He was a jack-of-all-trades, breaking the sturdy little cow ponies, treating their injuries and illnesses, trimming their hooves, and bending over an anvil to forge their shoes.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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