working people
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Ms. Cho’s Ye-ji is sweetly ingratiating, earnest in her desire to capture the lives of working people, yet she has a self-congratulatory air and turns stiff when politely called to account for her own obliviousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
“The idea that average working people could afford homes of their own was so exotic,” Pizzigati said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Whether they’re farmworkers or construction workers, hotel workers, restaurant workers, nannies who take care of children, these are working people, and yet they are being treated as if they were some sort of horrible criminals.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"It is about respecting work, backing our communities and giving working people real power over the future, not asking them simply to live with decisions made elsewhere."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The French writer Emile Zola, for example, thought that the Industrial Age had brought to working people untold misery and cruelty.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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