scatters

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Companies that manufacture slabs of engineered stone, a popular choice for kitchen and bathroom countertops, are developing and marketing new products amid mounting concerns about stonecutters being sickened with a deadly lung disease.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

The tradition of kicking a ball around the boundary of the town's castle grew out of stonecutters asserting their right to use the ancient path along which quarried stone was transported.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2020

Silica was a cruelly efficient killer of stonecutters in the 17th century; slicing through the workers’ lungs during necropsy was “like cutting a mass of sand,” a Dutch physician reported in 1672.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2015

After the Quaker farmers and some of Irish descent, he said, Italians - former stonecutters and silk mill workers laid off when the quarries and mills closed - arrived as laborers and later owners.

From Washington Times • Sep. 6, 2014

Or else Pharaoh must have rewarded the stonecutters handsomely indeed for the work on the temple.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw