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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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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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Companies operating these facilities are exposed to significant liability and workman’s compensation claims.Richard Bishop, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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But since 2010, changes in the populations that were migrating, and the failure of Congress to update the system with new legal channels for refugees and laborers, have made asylum the default access for migrants coming to the southwest border.Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
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Much like his 19th century predecessors, protection offers Trump an appeal to diverse constituencies: manufacturing interests, union laborers, declining industrial towns in swing states, voters without college educations and access to tech jobs.Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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As the anthropologist Katherine Newman noted, welfare beneficiaries typically worked full time, but as mothers and caretakers, not wage earners.Alex Park / Made by History, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
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Furthermore, positive wage growth was especially strong for moderate wage earners.Steven Dudash, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Workingman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workingman. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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