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Recent Examples of workingman
After all, one thing workingmen, women, and almost all of the enslaved had in common, on the commons, was the fact that none of them could vote.
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Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
—Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
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
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
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Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
McCardell is the one who ignored its provenance as a humble workingman’s textile and brought it to women’s wear.
—Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingman
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Four years ago, a longtime admirer of Morris’s, Paul Clements, produced a workman-like survey of the travel writer’s life and oeuvre; now Wheeler comes forth with a much deeper and more questioning look at an author who could seem at home everywhere, yet remain a stranger in her own household.—
Pico Iyer,
Air Mail,
2 May 2026
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Hilgenberg and Voigt were business partners, Blair was Voigt’s racquetball partner and McNeill was Voigt’s workman’s compensation lawyer.—
Charley Walters,
Twin Cities,
4 Apr. 2026
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In fact, in a time when artificial intelligence imperils the livelihoods – and lives – of laborers across economic classes, sumptuous spectacle can be an act of resistance in its own right.—
Eileen G'Sell,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
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The town attracts large numbers of laborers who work in large gold mines with muddy pools of gold deposits, narrow pits and caves.—
Justin Kabumba,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
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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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Yet the story of the toiler turned tycoon persisted.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Making $300k a year puts you in the top 3% of wage earners.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Sanchez and Stewart have disagreed on housing policy in the city, but both have said there is a critical need to balance the expansion of market-rate apartments with units that are within reach of below-average wage earners.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
24 Apr. 2026
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Several thousand navvies worked on the railway, living in makeshift camps, and many died in accidents, or from exposure and disease in the bitterly cold winters.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
3 May 2026
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workingman. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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