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blue-collar worker



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Making community theater, one often has to beg, borrow and steal to cast a show, so it’s not out of the question that Rita might cajole a blue-collar worker like Dan into a rehearsal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2024

This is a concern for Ken Feng, a 50-year-old blue-collar worker in Shenzhen, who worries that his parents could be among the first to succumb.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

O’Connor was an unknown when Lear tapped him to play an unapologetic blue-collar worker from New York’s borough of Queens whose ignorance and intolerance was his own comic foil.

From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021

I'm effectively a blue-collar worker in the dream factory.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2021

Q. Sometimes my girlfriend talks like we’re from different generations: My girlfriend of nine months is a blue-collar worker through and through, and I think her co-workers have really rubbed their personality on her.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2019


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