plumber
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The suspect was variously described - by students and in media reports - as a plumber, painter or construction worker.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The plumber told her the issue wasn’t the pipes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Even though people are willing to spend $5,000 on a toilet, they end up hiring a plumber who doesn’t install it properly, which becomes an expensive mistake, Linn said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
The plumber was sent to a fearsome maximum-security prison in Eswatini -- formerly known as Swaziland -- where he is still being held without charge a year later.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
With his pliers, the plumber twisted the inner workings of the lock.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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
The researchers say the register lays bare the breadth of which individuals contributed financially to the slave trade - from monarchs and politicians, to plumbers and clergymen.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
That post contained a short clip of him talking about his respect for people who work with their hands: “We need electricians, plumbers and carpenters,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
AFSCME’s members include custodians, gardeners, dining hall food service workers, transportation workers and skilled craft workers such as plumbers and electricians.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Everybody came out—hay farmers, clerks, merchants, fishermen, crabbers, carpenters, loggers, net weavers, truck farmers, junk dealers, real estate brigands, hack poets, ministers, lawyers, sailors, squatters, millwrights, cedar rats, teamsters, plumbers, mushroom foragers, and holly pruners.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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