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Barbecue is an everyday affair in Kansas City: a workingman’s (and workmanlike) tradition that prioritizes adaptation over aesthetics.
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Liz Cook, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Jan. 2026
For the average farmer, the global financial crisis and the reaction to it crystalized the idea that an elite financial cabal was putting the interests of bankers above the interests of the workingman.
—David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
After all, one thing workingmen, women, and almost all of the enslaved had in common, on the commons, was the fact that none of them could vote.
—Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
—Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
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Liz Cook, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Jan. 2026
For the average farmer, the global financial crisis and the reaction to it crystalized the idea that an elite financial cabal was putting the interests of bankers above the interests of the workingman.
—David McWilliams, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
After all, one thing workingmen, women, and almost all of the enslaved had in common, on the commons, was the fact that none of them could vote.
—Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
—Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workingman. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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workingman
noun
work·ing·man
ˈwər-kiŋ-ˌman 
: one who works for wages usually at manual labor or in industry
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