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Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, a senior who works as a public-health scientist, called a plumber when she started feeling sick from fumes in her Washington, D.C., home—a smell she described as “like feces.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Nat, a former Navy SEAL, launched Minuteman Plumbing, Heating & Cooling with a master plumber he met through a Harvard mentor between graduation and starting his job at a consulting firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

Related: My plumber charged $160 to fix the cistern on my toilet — but created another problem.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

The file had been started on Bloom at the time he defended a vocal land-grant heir, one Cesar Pacheco, a part-time plumber from Ojo Prieto, sixteen miles west of Milagro.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

Shortages of everything from electricians and plumbers to gas turbines and memory chips have driven up the cost of building new centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

A sort of community in miniature emerged, with security and scavenger teams and plumbers and one lone doctor running an overpacked infirmary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Road-menders and plumbers never went to work with umbrellas.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl