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"I am afraid of terrorists here," said Shahid Sofi, a 24-year-old mason from Bihar who previously worked in Delhi and Mumbai.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Pappu Verma, a mason, now works from 7am until noon, then again from 4pm until 7pm.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

It’s a high-tech twist on the classic mason jar, using a silicone lid with a degassing valve and an AirGone Argon Gas Canister to flush out oxygen.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

Two teams, each with a mason and a carpenter, worked simultaneously from both sides of a vault — installing first the lagging and then the webbing.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

All these tasks required master craftsmen, masons, architects and artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Among the finds at the dig were a section of wall, cut stones with a masons mark, pottery, slate and a Henry III coin dating from around 1270.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025

Members of the Hollywood Basic Crafts — a coalition of labor unions advocating for drivers, electricians, location managers, plumbers, mechanics, cement masons and other industry tradespeople — are still in contract talks with the AMPTP.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024

Bamouyi Trao Traoré, one of Djenné’s lead masons, says they work as a team from the very start.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

There they cut stones and tracery, carved capitals and sculptures in preparation for the return of the masons in the spring.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

The flower beds, circled with masoned rims and built up like wired bouquets, held only twisted and broken stems.

From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

Marlowe of masoned clouds, and Marston, in his better moments, of the fragmentary vigour of a Roman ruin,’ one begins to regret that any one ever thought of the unity of the arts. 

From Reviews by Oscar Wilde

It was discovered about forty years ago, and it may be seen in the vestry within the Norman chapter-house, where it is masoned into the wall over the chimney-piece.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle

Each house had a paved “stoep” in front, with a masoned seat at either end.

From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

No, no: nor was the Pyramid of Cheops masoned in a month; though, once built, the sands left by the deluge might not have submerged such a pile.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

She was doing mason's work; and, once on that tack, guided by the unconscious impulse, she has to keep masoning, even though her labour be useless, superfluous and opposed to her interests.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos