workingman

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Recent Examples of workingman As for some of the others, there is only a slight difference between their income and the wages of a workingman. Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011 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 See All Example Sentences for workingman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingman
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Engels wrote about the emergence of this group of laborers in his 1845 book, The Condition of the Working Class in England.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Some came as agricultural, mining or railway laborers; others served in the British administration or in the Brigade of Gorkhas, an organization in the British Army made up of people from Nepal.
    Emily Fishbein, Hpan Ja Brang, The Dial, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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

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