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
The group plans to start paying the masons from a GoFundMe that has now raised more than $100,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
Last summer, the first five women graduated from that state’s program, a partnership between the corrections department and the ironworkers, bricklayers and cement masons unions, which offer direct or preferred entry to graduates.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
He secretly summoned the masons and one of them revealed that he had walled up the bag in some bedroom because it bothered him in his work.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
