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Noun
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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 -
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
Noun
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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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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 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
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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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“Workwoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workwoman. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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