journeyman

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Warrington likened his rival to a journeyman, and Wood fired back, branding him an area-level fighter.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

In a journeyman career that took him to nine different teams, he saw pretty much every type of coach and system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Six-time Grand Slam winner Carlos Alcaraz was put through his paces by German journeyman Yannick Hanfmann on Wednesday before swatting him aside to book his place in the Australian Open third round.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

Instead, it was players like Bazardo, a 30-year-old journeyman from Venezuela, working a career-high 2 ⅔ innings without surrendering a run in what was the outing of a lifetime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

The coming of Mr. Percival Tweedie, journeyman silversmith of Baltimore, cast a longer and longer shadow over the Lapham household and conversation.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes