plumber
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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
But when the water heater broke, I paid the plumber.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
David Coleman, a plumber and mechanic whose more than 2.5 million TikTok followers know him as @Mechanicallyincleyend, uses social media for the opposite reason: He wants to make himself obsolete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Mohammed, a 27-year-old plumber, similarly feared for his two cousins, aged 18 and 22, who managed to cross into Ceuta.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
“He says I was supposed to marry a plumber and have five kids. I told him, ‘Uh-uh, I don’t think so!’
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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“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
In the company of carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and painters at lunch, I would often sit quietly, observant.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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