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plumber

[pluhm-er] / ˈplʌm ər /




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One is why anyone living a normal life needs a bot to perform such quotidian tasks as reading and writing emails, placing appointments on a calendar or calling a plumber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

In a Fox News interview, Netanyahu also praised an Israeli passenger who helped overpower the attacker, identifying him only as Yanik and describing him as a plumber.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

But when the water heater broke, I paid the plumber.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The plumber told her the issue wasn’t the pipes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

“The plumber is downstairs. He wants me to help him figure out why it’s been acting up.”

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

“That was unintended,” he replies, only digging himself in deeper when he explains that, like plumbers or electricians, he was there to do a job.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Home Depot devised a strategy of hiring former professional tradespeople en masse—carpenters, plumbers, electricians—to staff stores as their salespeople.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

But they were also musicians and scientists and doctors and plumbers and farmers and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and very often children.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The company, which makes a software for trade professionals like plumbers and electricians, got caught in the software pullback earlier this year.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

The Louvre was so large it had its own plumbers.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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