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This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
The people who are sitting in front of Hitler have, for the most part, sunk below the standard of living of a German workingman with a job.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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
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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
The people who are sitting in front of Hitler have, for the most part, sunk below the standard of living of a German workingman with a job.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workingman. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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workingman
noun
work·ing·man
ˈwər-kiŋ-ˌman 
: one who works for wages usually at manual labor or in industry
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