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Noun
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Layoffs, meanwhile, hit wage earners harder than those with multiple income streams or significant investments.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025 -
Here again, rising energy costs were felt more keenly by wage earners than stockbrokers because buying gasoline and heating their homes constitutes a much larger percentage of their take-home pay.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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According to workmen at the site, repairs are expected to take a week to 10 days.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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May 1 became associated with workers' rights in 1886 when hundreds of thousands of laborers in Chicago participated in a multi-day strike to push for an eight-hour workday.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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Their demands included wage increases, an end to outsourcing, and stronger protections for both domestic and migrant laborers.—
Thomas Adamson and Yuri Kageyama,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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“Workwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workwoman. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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