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However, in contrast to the vision of free yeoman workers, historians have found that most laborers who arrived on the first ships were either indentured to individual masters or bound by some other kind of contract that limited their freedom.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025 -
This was a very common patriotic project for volunteer laborers in late‑war Japan—especially among those either too old or too young to perform more demanding and exacting full‑time war plant work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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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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Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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Americana and denim go hand in hand, the stiff fabric harkening back to cowboy culture, workmen's uniforms and other mythologized aspects of the national identity.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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Six months later, Nadja was discovered screaming in terror in the corridor of her hotel, having seen men on the roof (in an ironic echo of a scene Breton reports in the book—and which might in fact have been workmen on the neighboring rooftop, rather than the hallucination commonly supposed).—
Mark Polizzoti
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Last month, the overall consumer price index rose 2.7% and the index for urban wage earners increased 2.6%.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
19 July 2025
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While this is touted as a benefit for middle income taxpayers the top end of the threshold of $300,000 of income puts that wage earner in the top 3% of earners in the country.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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Jackson hoped that the exhibition would counter the misconception that medieval women were universally downtrodden drudges.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
10 July 2025
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The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The installers were jobbers who worked for one of the big-box retailers.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
26 July 2025
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Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.—
Peter Abraham,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 Aug. 2023
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Moorman claims she was fired after reporting their conduct and meeting with federal investigators in January 2025, telling WDRB her coworkers were charging $200 per fraudulent license four or five times per day over the course of more than two years.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
13 Aug. 2025
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Rodríguez's personal and professional life changed one day around 2017 when her Gucci coworker asked her to stay a few minutes past closing for a client.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Advertisement Johnson anticipates more challenges from his cantankerous colleagues.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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Trump has criticized Fed chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues for not moving more aggressively to cut interest rates.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Nine-to-fiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nine-to-fiver. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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