workingman
Americannoun
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workingmen
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See -man.
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They want the moribund broadsheet to trounce the Daily Mail and become the voice of the British workingman.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
It’s what a workingman might eat standing up while his daintier compatriots nibble on nigiri at a proper sushi bar; sushi that occasionally improves in a 7-Eleven refrigerator case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2017
His old friend Patti Smith, writing in The New Yorker, called him “our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2015
Historians still debate over whom, specifically, to credit with the idea of a holiday dedicated to the workingman.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
This reminds us that Sinclair, a committed socialist who dedicated “The Jungle” to the workingmen of America, was disappointed by his book’s impact.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
While workingmen loyal to unions had long resented the Pinkertons, conflicts between industrialists and labor also alarmed lawmakers and “respectable” citizens, and they wondered whether the Pinkertons’ existence was making everything worse.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019
Wright made a sensational impression with her speeches and her newspaper, the Free Enquirer, but her religious and sexual nonconformity won her few friends outside a small circle of radical New York workingmen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Owen’s plan was to welcome everyone, even to the point of encouraging workingmen to visit in the evening, and to devote most of the museum’s space to public displays.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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