forewoman
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The juror forewoman has claimed in a media interview that Desronvil had expressed reasonable doubt about Clancy's guilt, which would require him to find her not guilty.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
After the jury got the case, Trailer, the forewoman, went home and watched “12 Angry Men,” a legal drama about conflict between jurors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
As costume shop forewoman at LACC, McKenna pulled together technically impeccable and historically accurate costumes for everything from Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” to the midcentury French drama “Cher Antoine.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
They deliberated just a few minutes before acquitting him, and the forewoman hugged Wright before sending him home.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Compounds ending with man or woman are run solid; pressman, forewoman.
From Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
Factory employment: Machine operators, designers, forewomen, stenographers, bookkeepers, nurses, dietitians, welfare workers, travellers, managers and owners.
From The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance by Lady Marjory MacMurchy Willison
They were hand-and-glove with the forewomen, asked them to breakfast at their country houses, knelt to old Spricht as if he were the Pope himself.
From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall
She said there were chances to make big wages there, because forewomen and draping hands were wanted more and girls who had anything in them had a better show than in a little place.
From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by John Maurice Miller
One of the most trying aspects of machine-speeding, in the sewing trades, is the perpetual goading and insistence of the foremen and forewomen, frequently mentioned by other workers besides Yeddie.
From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark
A study of the previous experience of foremen and forewomen made by the survey shows that they come from nearly every department of the factory.
From Wage Earning and Education by Rufus Rolla Lutz
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