How to Use white-collar in a Sentence

white-collar

adjective
  • Enter LinkedIn, the brag board of choice for the white-collar worker.
    — Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The case was a boon to white-collar lawyers and a shot across the bow of international sports.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Most of my cousins got white-collar jobs or joined the public sector.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • These are people for whom a white-collar job at a call center is a reach.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
  • At first glance, this seems like any other white-collar scheme.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024
  • The only city that saw more young white-collar workers?
    — Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
  • According to the chairman of one of the U.K.’s biggest chains, the trend has become something of a white-collar crime.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
  • About half of those who broke into the Capitol were white-collar workers.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • But those threats were aimed at white-collar tech workers who were not unionized.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The white-collar types appear to enjoy this sandwich shop on the first floor of a commercial high-rise.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
  • And Zoom and Microsoft Teams conferences and Slack chats still reign over the white-collar world.
    — Daniel Munoz, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • For the first time since the pandemic began, more white-collar workers in the U.K. work in the office full-time than on a hybrid schedule.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Dude can’t talk for more than five seconds without confessing to a white-collar crime.
    — Katie Rife, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Typically, in white-collar crimes, the bigger the financial loss, the longer the sentence.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • These layoffs, many of which are for white-collar roles, have led to a job market squeeze, pushing quit rates to pre-pandemic lows.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The past year was a turning (and at times tipping) point in the white-collar workforce, which was rife with layoffs and return-to-office mandates.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Blue horizons Younger folks are losing trust in white-collar careers.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The offices that provide the white-collar jobs so many Indians aspire to were shuttered overnight.
    — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Some employers may soon have to pad their white-collar workers’ checks with overtime pay.
    — Amber Burton, Fortune, 19 July 2023
  • Another reason for why AI could affect white-collar jobs the most?
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Normally, this is a beat filled with white-collar crime, so this definitely has been outside of the norm.
    — Miranda Kennedy, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
  • This is most noticeable in white-collar jobs that can be done remotely.
    — Sean Manning, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • His sentence ranks as one of the longest imposed on a white-collar defendant in recent years.
    — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • On this very site, MetLife pioneered the communal white-collar workspace.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Chandler was the yuppie of the group, with a well-paying white-collar job his friends did not entirely understand.
    — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • For most white-collar jobs, those are vestiges of the past, Zappacosta believes.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The big picture: It's become harder to find a job, particularly in the white-collar world.
    — Emily Peck, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025
  • In 2021, when metaverse chatter reached a fever pitch, the idea was sometimes discussed as a replacement for the white-collar office in a world of remote work.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Carlos is no stranger to high-profile cases ranging from homicides to narcotics and white-collar crimes.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The decision comes as part of Trump's use of presidential powers to grant clemency to those convicted of white-collar crimes.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025

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