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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

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

“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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