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Recent Examples of workingwoman
Reminiscent of the Row or the elegant workingwoman aesthetic of Celine’s Phoebe Philo era, the clothes are instantly covetable.
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New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingwoman
Noun
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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
Noun
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The workmen complied, and Faulí got down and scuttled through the opening.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 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
Noun
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But the past few years of layoffs, hiring slowdowns, and dwindling worker protections have left a subset of wage earners inclined to keep their cards close.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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In the early twentieth century, two groups of Indians living in America, young intellectuals and working-class laborers, had very different experiences of the country.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Nov. 2025
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The actions of delivery truck drivers, warehouse laborers and many others can be tracked and sifted, too.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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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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“Workingwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workingwoman. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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