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Recent Examples of workingman
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.
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Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
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Julia Turner,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2025
Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.
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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.
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Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
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Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingman
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The day shift also starts making factory-work jokes, with Rekha playing a perky do-bee who just wants to make the boss happy, and Lily adopting an agitator role, demanding workman’s comp and trying to spark revolt.
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After Napoleon Dynamite, Gries landed a recurring role on Lost as Ben Linus' father, Roger, a DHARMA Initiative workman.
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For American diners of diverse backgrounds, chop suey struck an enticing balance between novelty and decipherability, which propelled it to national popularity even as the US government moved to exclude Chinese laborers from entering the country in 1882.
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Filipino laborers came to Mexico via colonialism, and adapted and adopted champoy with spices and chilies from Mexico to become chamoy.
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Reminiscent of the Row or the elegant workingwoman aesthetic of Celine’s Phoebe Philo era, the clothes are instantly covetable.
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Yet the story of the toiler turned tycoon persisted.
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The horizontal bar chart shows the top inflation categories from the consumer price index for wage earners and clerical workers in the U.S. for May 2026.
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Homes that were built to be attainable for a modest local wage earner were inflated into high-yield financial assets.
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Several thousand navvies worked on the railway, living in makeshift camps, and many died in accidents, or from exposure and disease in the bitterly cold winters.
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workingman. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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