workingman

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Recent Examples of workingman 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 Those tweets helped cement Musk's reputation as a brash outsider, a workingman's billionaire, Grygiel said. David Klepper, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022 See All Example Sentences for workingman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingman
Noun
  • The incident caught the world's attention as Japanese workmen repaired the road within a matter of days.
    Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Work was nearing completion on the Baptist church as workmen posed atop the steeple still under construction.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Brahmins, who were traditionally priests, sit at the top, followed by warriors, merchants, and laborers – each further divided into thousands of subcategories.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The minimum wage standards required of firms receiving CHIPS funding, for example, could have been applied to all categories of workers, not just to laborers and mechanics.
    Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, rising household incomes, economic expansion, pension reform, and adjustments to the healthcare system have allowed more households to exist with just one wage earner.
    Rocio Wu, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • By August 2022, lower wage earners were averaging 7% yearly pay increases compared to 4.5% for the higher earners, the Atlanta Fed data shows.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025

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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workingman. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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