machinist
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"I thought I would lay low for a while and seek new employment once the situation calms," said Musa Hashimi, who worked as a machinist in a textile factory.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Joe Kostka, 71, a retired machinist who paints the trail markers, lined up with his 42-year-old son Tim, who flew in from North Carolina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2025
All around him, workers are cutting the leather into the right shape to hand it to the machinist.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
“We rallied for each other, and we remembered to step up,” said the 32-year-old machinist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
He had been hired as a machinist, but gradually the range of his duties widened.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The construction and installation of offshore wind turbines requires the expertise of skilled electrical workers, pipe fitters, welders, pile drivers, iron workers, machinists and carpenters.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
Other blue-collar roles, such as machinists and assembly workers, meanwhile, will continue to be negatively impacted by broader trends like globalization and outsourcing, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026
Sciortino estimates that there are 550,000 CNC machinists in Germany, compared with 350,000 in the whole of the US.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
The Boeing machinists work on F-15 and F-18 combat aircraft, the T-7 Red Hawk Advanced Pilot Training System and MQ-25 unmanned aircraft in factories in Missouri and Illinois.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Sometimes he would even gesture toward all three of us, my father, my brother, and me, and say we were "a family of machinists."
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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