working person
Example Sentences
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“There’s nothing harder for a working person than seeing that the result of the work has been destroyed,” said the manager, who has worked at this station for 27 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
You can keep contributing to a Roth IRA as the spouse of a working person, because the main rule for the contributions is that they have to come from earned income.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026
"She was beautiful, and she was the hardest working person I'd ever met," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
"If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, okay? So, I'm a working person, you know?"
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2024
The watchman had not particularly noticed; he should say a working person; to the best of his belief, he had a dust-coloured kind of clothes on, under a dark coat.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
