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
  • In 1893, workmen laid dynamite charges and started blowing them up.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Some of the laborers were sent to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Baker County, while some went to Miami's Krome Detention Center.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 6 June 2025
  • And, indeed, much like other immigrant laborers, French-Canadian loggers were subject to harsh working conditions and low pay as well as to political disenfranchisement.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Decision fatigue impairs mental clarity and is why many wage earners have little mental energy left over for activities outside of work.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • Nearly all wage earners pay into the system throughout their working lives on the promise of monthly checks at retirement.
    Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 5 May 2025

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