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metalworker

American  
[met-uhl-wurk-er] / ˈmɛt əlˌwɜrk ər /

noun

  • metalworkers
    plural
  1. a person who makes metal objects, by hand or in a factory setting.


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He cries when he tells Lula's life story: a boy who grew up in hunger in the north-east, who became a metalworker, then a union leader, then a three-time president.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

"It's a warning sign, obviously," said Jilmar Tatto, vice president of the Workers' Party, which former metalworker Lula co-founded in 1980.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

He was an airman first class and his service included work as a metalworker helper, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Mario Di Costanzo, the head of leftist metalworker union FIOM's branch in Pomigliano, told Reuters that production halted almost entirely on Wednesday and suffered further stoppages for several hours on Thursday and on Friday.

From Reuters ● May 12, 2023

Discovering that Bert had valuable experience as a metalworker, he pulled Bert from the line, separating him from his parents.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Paul comes from a long line of metalworkers going back "hundreds of years".

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025

Industries of textiles, or metalworkers making nails and scythes, were shaped like "factories without machines spread out over hundreds of households" according to Shaw-Taylor -- and increasingly produced goods for international markets.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024

The Iron Monkey metalworkers are known for the multistory apparitions they conjure every year, haul to Burning Man and set on fire.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Hummes soon began visiting the metalworkers who were organizing strikes in defiance of the military regime, demanding better wages and greater freedom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

European metalworkers tended to create metal objects by pouring molten alloys into shaped molds.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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