plumber
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As long as his electrician and plumber can find the place, he figured, he’s in good shape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The suspect was variously described - by students and in media reports - as a plumber, painter or construction worker.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
But when the water heater broke, I paid the plumber.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
The nanny was there the hot summer morning the plumber came to change the showerheads and faucets in the upstairs bathrooms.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
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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
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
AFSCME’s members include custodians, gardeners, dining hall food service staff, transportation workers and skilled craft workers such as plumbers and electricians.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Rahim Khan told me Baba had personally funded the entire project, paying for the engineers, electricians, plumbers, and laborers, not to mention the city officials whose “mustaches needed oiling.”
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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