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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.
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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
Manchin used the snafu to further tar his wealthy opponent—who had supported NAFTA and opposed the minimum wage—as a fake friend of the workingman.
—Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
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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
Manchin used the snafu to further tar his wealthy opponent—who had supported NAFTA and opposed the minimum wage—as a fake friend of the workingman.
—Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workingman
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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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In the Act One climax, one of the workmen, Polish poet Joe Pakulski (Devin Cortez), falls to his death, leaving behind his pregnant wife, an Indigenous woman named Rudy (also Kabeary) who has been working beside him on the high beams.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 July 2024
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Industry celebrates Enbridge approval Industry and labor groups celebrated the approval Thursday, especially because Enbridge has contracted with Michaels Construction for the project that is expected to employ Wisconsin laborers.Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024
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According to Boston University's Korean Diaspora Project, when the then-sovereign state was annexed by the U.S. in 1898, plantation owners in Hawaii requiring cheap labor led to an influx of Chinese workers from Canton, as well as laborers from Korea.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 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 30 Nov. 2024.
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