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The Social Security Administration (SSA) distributes benefits to more than 70 million people, including retirees, disabled workers and the families of deceased wage earners.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Aug. 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.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
19 July 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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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
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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
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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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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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Christopher Columbus’s son, Diego Colón, Hispaniola’s governor, granted him an encomienda, or consignment of Indian laborers, on the north coast of the island in the Cibao Valley.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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The figure in Nepal is even higher — 20% — which observers say has pushed young people to leave the country in droves to find jobs in neighboring India as well as in other regions such as the Middle East, where they’re often employed as laborers.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Workwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workwoman. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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