journeyman

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Warrington likened his rival to a journeyman, and Wood fired back, branding him an area-level fighter.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

Six-time Grand Slam winner Carlos Alcaraz was put through his paces by German journeyman Yannick Hanfmann on Wednesday before swatting him aside to book his place in the Australian Open third round.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

Mariyana Lords, a junior there, wants to do an apprenticeship to earn her journeyman electrician license.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

It’s an irony not lost on Crudup, a journeyman actor long admired for his craft and emotional precision, now drawing renewed attention for playing a man defined by the life he didn’t get.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

But she could remember Bill Oliver’s father a journeyman needlemaker; and th’ Rivers wor gentry i’ th’ owd days o’ th’ Henrys, as onybody might see by looking into th’ registers i’ Morton Church vestry.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë