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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingman
Noun
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Other categories, including workmen’s and unemployment compensation, ask for $12,044.39.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Without its central industry, it’s become a ghost town, and one where the era of Harmony and her old friend (played by character actor James LeGros) working as child laborers(*) for Lumon comparatively feel like the good old days.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
7 Mar. 2025
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A week later, Chinese laborers returned to Rock Springs and soon resumed coal production.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Some of the highest wage earners at major employers in KCK — including the University of Kansas Health System, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Providence Medical Center — live in Johnson County or across the border in Missouri.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
16 Mar. 2025
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With growing numbers of wage earners returning to offices, emerging work campuses are gaining fresh attention.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workingman. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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