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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

Hockey is like that of a medieval mason who helped lay a forgotten stone in a cathedral’s foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

An Orkney stonemason has turned "snow mason" to build an impressive igloo with a working fire and chimney.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026

I’ve done mason work and landscaping and stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

Then she borrowed a nicely sharpened pencil from the blue mason jar on the librarian’s desk.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Once granted, a large-scale project,, external involving conservation specialists, stone masons and architects, was initiated to restore and then move the statue.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

The week-long recruitment drive began on Tuesday, with a 15-member Israeli team overseeing the process and expecting to fill over 5,000 positions for masons, carpenters and other construction workers in Israel.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

One by one the cut stones of the ribs, called voussoirs, were hoisted onto the centering and mortared into place by the masons.

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

So the King’s daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned house, and she thought upon the thought. 

From Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson

So, in the end, I masoned up my lockers and pantries; and save the two used for mittens, the white jacket ever after was pocketless.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

He stopped up the two doors which communicated with the aisles of the church, and the two which opened into the chancel, and which, though visible, still remain masoned up.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 by Various

So the King’s daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned house, and she thought upon the thought.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson

The tracery windows on the south side are masoned up, but much of the original tracery remains.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 by Various

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

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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