working people
Example Sentences
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Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer and writer whose work advocated fiercely for working landscapes and working people, died “suddenly and peacefully” on Monday at his home in Port Royal, Ky., according to his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
She founded crisis support centre Second Chance Medway, which runs a discounted food pantry two days a week, where she now sees not only people on benefits, but working people too.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
An improvement in the finances of working people at the lower end of the economic scale might help explain why their spending on both essentials and discretionary items has accelerated recently, some economists said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
In principle I heartily agreed with this, for I knew that it was impossible for working people to forge instruments of political power until they had achieved unity of action.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
