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Recent Examples of wage earner
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.
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Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
Our friends and neighbors are living in terror of ICE raids that leave their families broken without a wage earner and leave children without their parents.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2025
Now, income stagnation and rising living costs are sending wage earners to food banks across the country — all as the federal government shuts off funding streams that provide millions with healthier, harder-to-get groceries.
—James Pollard, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
Why Guam is attractive for some wage earners Debates over immigration tend to focus on immigrants arriving at the U.S. southern border from Latin America and the Caribbean.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
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Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
Our friends and neighbors are living in terror of ICE raids that leave their families broken without a wage earner and leave children without their parents.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2025
Now, income stagnation and rising living costs are sending wage earners to food banks across the country — all as the federal government shuts off funding streams that provide millions with healthier, harder-to-get groceries.
—James Pollard, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
Why Guam is attractive for some wage earners Debates over immigration tend to focus on immigrants arriving at the U.S. southern border from Latin America and the Caribbean.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wage earner
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Proslavery propaganda in the antebellum South insisted that Northern wage slaves were worse off than Southern chattel slaves.—
Sarah Churchwell,
The New York Review of Books,
11 June 2019
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Reminiscent of the Row or the elegant workingwoman aesthetic of Celine’s Phoebe Philo era, the clothes are instantly covetable.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2021
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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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Two women take a selfie next to a mural by artist Banksy of a workman removing a star from the EU flag near the ferry terminal in Dover, Kent, in 2017.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
10 Sep. 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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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20earner. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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