How to Use salaryman in a Sentence
salaryman
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The model of the salaryman who enjoys a job for life has broken down.
—The Economist, 27 July 2019
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Then, the next player, a 30-something salaryman in suit and tie, moves to the console for his lesson.
—Chris Goto-Jones, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2018
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Tokyo is among several cities with helplines and websites that try to reach shut-ins, who range from teenage school dropouts to salarymen who have been sacked.
—The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
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Two years ago, Kazushige Nishida, a Tokyo salaryman in his sixties, started renting a part-time wife and daughter.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
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But, for me, those salarymen with their briefcases seemed like outlandish outliers.
—Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
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For decades the government pushed industrial growth, so the country’s cities filled up with drab business hotels that catered to armies of salarymen.
—The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
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The 48-year-old salaryman started fishing as a hobby during the pandemic.
—Hanako Lowry, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
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The story focuses on a salaryman who finds an exciting new side to life while under siege from zombies.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Jan. 2023
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While some izakaya skew fancy and others grungy, Shirube is an egalitarian affair where the tired salarymen and the local cool kids can all take off their shoes and down a beer.
—Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
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Forlorn salarymen donned their usual dark suits and loitered in parks, too humiliated to tell their families they’d been laid off.
—Michael Schuman, Bloomberg.com, 29 June 2017
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In the dark after-work hours, its tiny bars, ramen counters, karaoke boxes, and hostess spots were crammed with salarymen spending an extra few hours laughing at their superiors’ jokes or drinking off the stress of their jobs.
—Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2018
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Japan was once renowned for the mutual loyalty of its companies and salarymen, who could plausibly aspire to lifetime employment at a single firm.
—Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
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The fan base spans the spectrum of Japanese society: die-hard fanatics crowded into the outfield, salarymen and salarywomen unwinding after work, families with young children and teenagers on dates.
—Byron Tau, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
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Behind these diners, Japanese salarymen and expats in business attire crowded over two oak barrels serving as standing tables.
—Chaney Kwak, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
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Anyone who has even a passing interest in Japan knows this, has seen the photographs of black-suited salarymen having picnic lunches in an incongruously pink landscape, like something out of a child’s fantasy bedroom.
—New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
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With postwar economic growth and the rise of corporate culture, ie households became less common, while apartment-dwelling nuclear households—consisting of a salaryman, a housewife, and their children—proliferated.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
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Following Magnetic Rose was the entirely different and eerily upbeat Stink Bomb, which dealt with a salaryman in a laboratory inadvertently letting loose a devastating biological weapon.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 21 June 2021
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