workingman

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Recent Examples of workingman As for some of the others, there is only a slight difference between their income and the wages of a workingman. Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011 At the time, denim was a workingman’s textile that women rarely wore. Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023 Ryan Gramlich, Dartmouth — Touchdown runs of 1, 9 and 6 yards punctuated a workingman’s performance for the junior, who amassed 79 yards on 17 carries for the Indians in a 25-13 win over Greater New Bedford. Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023 Braque’s housepainter past has long been part of the Cubist mythos, often leveraged into a kind of workingman street cred, but here it is granted a particular and critical role. Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for workingman
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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
  • Those responsible for homeland security should not be chasing laborers on farms and busboys in restaurants in order to meet quotas imposed by the White House.
    Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 June 2025
  • At the same time, industrial facilities lured laborers into factories and mills as fewer were needed to work the land.
    Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 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, 6 June 2025
  • The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on average annual increases in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) from July through September.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 14 May 2025

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