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Recent Examples of wage earner
In August, the overall CPI rose by 2.9%, while the index specifically for urban wage earners and clerical workers increased by 2.8%.
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Oct. 2025
The program’s new emphasis on higher wage earners, who will receive more slots in the visa lottery compared to recent college graduates, will favor older, more experienced applicants, said Ben Johnston, COO of Kapitus, a small business lender.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
To avoid being cost-burdened, a minimum-wage earner in Miami would have to work more than 100 hours a week.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
While many wage earners only concern themselves with taxes on one day of the year, small business owners often have filing requirements all year round.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
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Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Oct. 2025
The program’s new emphasis on higher wage earners, who will receive more slots in the visa lottery compared to recent college graduates, will favor older, more experienced applicants, said Ben Johnston, COO of Kapitus, a small business lender.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
To avoid being cost-burdened, a minimum-wage earner in Miami would have to work more than 100 hours a week.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
While many wage earners only concern themselves with taxes on one day of the year, small business owners often have filing requirements all year round.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wage earner
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
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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
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That workman-like answer from Beck, in many ways, encapsulates his approach all season with the Hurricanes.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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And the workman joined in, meowing back at Arthur as his cries got progressively louder and faster.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2025
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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20earner. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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