as in laborer
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Noun
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The laborers who make these goods earn as little as $5 an hour, including overtime, for workdays that can last 10 hours or more.—
Keith Bradsher,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025 -
In Nepal, a U.S.-based nonprofit named the La Isla Network put on hold its work on chronic kidney disease, a deadly condition believed to be linked to heat stress and dehydration that has emerged as a threat to manual laborers in hot countries.—
ByCatherine Offord,
science.org,
5 Feb. 2025
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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.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
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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
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The defective grandstand was a last-minute add-on; workmen were still hammering it together as people took their seats.—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Jan. 2025
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Florals appeared as embroideries and prints on workman jackets and corduroy pants adding an artisanal touch to the look, as seen in this Rue de Tokyo piece.—
Alex Badia,
WWD,
17 Jan. 2025
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By August 2022, lower wage earners were averaging 7% yearly pay increases compared to 4.5% for the higher earners, the Atlanta Fed data shows.—
Paul Davidson,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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Ladders’ data shows that remote-work opportunities for the highest wage earners have fallen every quarter since Q3 of 2022.—
Brooke Seipel,
Fortune,
4 Dec. 2024
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The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.—
Iain Martin,
Forbes,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Read full article Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.—
Peter Abraham,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 Aug. 2023
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Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes,
12 May 2021
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And scientists are just people that are your neighbors and friends and coworkers.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
25 Feb. 2025
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Now her coworker is out, probably thanks to Whoopi.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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And as a part-time Air National Guard officer, General Caine was a co-founder of RISE Air, a regional airline, and managed other private businesses, according to his LinkedIn page and interviews with friends and former colleagues.—
Eric Schmitt,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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Maitland remembered presenting the same award to his father, Dennis Maitland, 16 years ago, and then thanked his family, friends and colleagues.—
Carolyn Giardina,
Variety,
23 Feb. 2025
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