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Recent Examples of workingman
Kimmel has a great blend of classy guy and workingman’s appeal, but this isn’t his strongest night.
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
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
His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
The people who are sitting in front of Hitler have, for the most part, sunk below the standard of living of a German workingman with a job.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
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
His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
The people who are sitting in front of Hitler have, for the most part, sunk below the standard of living of a German workingman with a job.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingman
Noun
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This year’s was directed by the workman action filmmaker behind flicks like Snitch and Angel Has Fallen.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2026
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My late father used to say that a bad workman always blamed his tools.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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No workers for mundane tasks Diez revealed that manufacturers worldwide are struggling to find laborers for highly repetitive physical tasks.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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The voices captured on that wall belong not to emperors or senators, but to lovers, laborers, sports fans, and artists who left their marks in a corridor between two theaters, never imagining those marks would still be read 2,000 years later.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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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The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on the average annual increases in a subset of the overall consumer price index called the index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, from July through September.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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Democrats insist that tax cuts — allowing wage earners to keep more of their own money — under Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump have created this sea of red ink.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
17 Jan. 2026
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workingman. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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