How to Use white-collar in a Sentence

white-collar

adjective
  • Enter LinkedIn, the brag board of choice for the white-collar worker.
    Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The case was a boon to white-collar lawyers and a shot across the bow of international sports.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Most of my cousins got white-collar jobs or joined the public sector.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • These are people for whom a white-collar job at a call center is a reach.
    Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
  • At first glance, this seems like any other white-collar scheme.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024
  • According to the chairman of one of the U.K.’s biggest chains, the trend has become something of a white-collar crime.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But those threats were aimed at white-collar tech workers who were not unionized.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • For the first time since the pandemic began, more white-collar workers in the U.K. work in the office full-time than on a hybrid schedule.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Typically, in white-collar crimes, the bigger the financial loss, the longer the sentence.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024
  • These layoffs, many of which are for white-collar roles, have led to a job market squeeze, pushing quit rates to pre-pandemic lows.
    Trey Williams, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The past year was a turning (and at times tipping) point in the white-collar workforce, which was rife with layoffs and return-to-office mandates.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Blue horizons Younger folks are losing trust in white-collar careers.
    Nick Rockel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The offices that provide the white-collar jobs so many Indians aspire to were shuttered overnight.
    Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Some employers may soon have to pad their white-collar workers’ checks with overtime pay.
    Amber Burton, Fortune, 19 July 2023
  • Another reason for why AI could affect white-collar jobs the most?
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023
  • This is most noticeable in white-collar jobs that can be done remotely.
    Sean Manning, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • His sentence ranks as one of the longest imposed on a white-collar defendant in recent years.
    J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Chandler was the yuppie of the group, with a well-paying white-collar job his friends did not entirely understand.
    Matt Stevens, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • For most white-collar jobs, those are vestiges of the past, Zappacosta believes.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
  • In 2021, when metaverse chatter reached a fever pitch, the idea was sometimes discussed as a replacement for the white-collar office in a world of remote work.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Over the same period, those in more white-collar professions saw more modest gains.
    David Harrison, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This data — text, image, voice, and video data — forms the foundation of today’s white-collar work.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • In the recent annals of white-collar crime, Bankman-Fried's sentence is similar to what others found guilty have received.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • So, the aesthetics and the composition of my films have transitioned into a more white-collar feel.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Even with the new boost to an average base wage of more than $22 an hour, Amazon warehouse workers’ pay is still far lower than that of their white-collar colleagues.
    Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But researchers have noted that baby boomers who worked white-collar jobs and don’t see a need to slow down make up a much larger portion of that workforce than ever.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The wins of union members have inspired people within the private sector to get aboard the movement as white-collar jobs become less stable.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Although there is a glimmer of good news, the U.S. will likely see a challenging job market for white-collar professionals for the next four to six months.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • In September, Boeing announced furloughs and pay cuts for some white-collar employees in response to the strike.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Ferbert, a first-time candidate, is endorsed by Elliott, four local bar associations as well as the unions for city lawyers and white-collar city workers, plus the Union-Tribune editorial board.
    Kate Murphy, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024

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