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Recent Examples of wage earner
For wage earners, Social Security and Medicare taxes are called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) and are taken out of your paycheck.
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 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
Decision fatigue impairs mental clarity and is why many wage earners have little mental energy left over for activities outside of work.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Nearly all wage earners pay into the system throughout their working lives on the promise of monthly checks at retirement.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 5 May 2025
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Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 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
Decision fatigue impairs mental clarity and is why many wage earners have little mental energy left over for activities outside of work.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Nearly all wage earners pay into the system throughout their working lives on the promise of monthly checks at retirement.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wage earner
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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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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20earner. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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