worktable
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worktables
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Lidia Butcher gives a toolbox and worktable her two sons used to Chelsea Ward for her 17-month-old son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Colorful transparent slides, mounted with slivers of nervous tissue from sacrificed animals still gummy to the touch from chemical treatments, lay scattered on the worktable.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 9, 2022
It’s easiest to work on a door that is off the hinge and flat on sawhorses or a worktable.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
This might mean an uncluttered area for movement or a spacious worktable for crafts.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Doc set the box down on his worktable.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
You can install shelves, pegboard and wall-mounted desks or foldable worktables with some basic tools and know-how.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021
There were three wheels and a kiln, and several worktables covered with test tiles for trying out new glazes, freeze-dried treats for Zelda and ceramics in various states of completion.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2021
The other side is a sunlit potting room where the miniature trees—a 400 year-old juniper and a Lilliputian maple, among others—are watered, wired, pinched, pruned and repotted on mahogany worktables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2016
To our right was a brightly lit room where a dozen oak worktables stood, in tidy formation, on a polished-concrete floor.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
They were too busy, back at their worktables down in the Rotunda Reading Room, folding the paper airplanes they had chosen from that one book in the 700s room.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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