The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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Before that he was a young boy, born on Halloween, frolicking among unmarked headstones as the son of funerary masons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Among the finds at the dig were a section of wall, cut stones with a masons mark, pottery, slate and a Henry III coin dating from around 1270.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
Members of the Hollywood Basic Crafts — a coalition of labor unions advocating for drivers, electricians, location managers, plumbers, mechanics, cement masons and other industry tradespeople — are still in contract talks with the AMPTP.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
Fiber reinforcement has been around since the first masons were mixing horsehair into their mud.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023
On top of the lagging the masons laid one course or layer of webbing stones.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
