nine-to-fiver

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Noun
  • Vita's Ukrainian mother (my grandmother) survived as an orphan for two years under German occupation and barely evaded being carted off to Germany to work as a forced laborer.
    Sasha Vasilyuk, Time, 8 May 2025
  • But, as Levi history tells it, the wife of a local laborer came to Davis asking for pants that wouldn’t fall apart.
    Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In 1893, workmen laid dynamite charges and started blowing them up.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Olsen is wearing an oversized black workman’s jacket, very similar to, if not an exact piece from The Row in a different color.
    Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For wage earners, Social Security and Medicare taxes are called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) and are taken out of your paycheck.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • What To Know Senators Roger Marshall of Kansas and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama have introduced the Overtime Wages Tax Relief Act, which would create an income tax deduction for overtime wage earners.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.
    Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 May 2021
Noun
  • Though Lorelai and Luke sailed off into the sunset together, in real life, Graham and Patterson were only ever friends and great coworkers.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • After losing both his coworker and stepfather, Sullivan now carries a gold lantern in their memory.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • But Xu and her colleagues would need far more evidence than just two people in a trial that enrolled a total of eight, so that research remains ongoing.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • For these more serious cases, Soni and his colleagues work closely with the university’s mental-health center and even walk students to a counselor’s door themselves.
    Cornelia Powers, The Atlantic, 18 May 2025
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“Nine-to-fiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nine-to-fiver. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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