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His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
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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
At the time, denim was a workingman’s textile that women rarely wore.
—Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
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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
At the time, denim was a workingman’s textile that women rarely wore.
—Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workingman. Accessed 14 Nov. 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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