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Recent Examples of workingman
At the time, denim was a workingman’s textile that women rarely wore.
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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
Those tweets helped cement Musk's reputation as a brash outsider, a workingman's billionaire, Grygiel said.
—David Klepper, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
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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
Those tweets helped cement Musk's reputation as a brash outsider, a workingman's billionaire, Grygiel said.
—David Klepper, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingman
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The workmen who installed them botched the installation.Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2024
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Work is ongoing — a frenzy of hard hats, fluorescent-jacketed workmen and whirring machinery.Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
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The shipyards needed laborers, and the promise of good jobs drew tens of thousands—many of them Black workers from the South and East—to places like Richmond.April White, JSTOR Daily, 16 Dec. 2024
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In addition to Mar-a-Lago and the Bedminster golf course, Trump’s Virginia winery and his Palm Beach golf course also sought foreign laborers in 2024.Zach Everson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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That tax cut was to be paid for by raising the cap for individuals earning more than $250,000 annually and requiring more Social Security taxes to be paid by those wage earners.Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
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Even in 2019, the city of Milwaukee was the only municipality in the county where a single average wage earner could afford the average house by themselves.Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workingman. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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