white-collar
Example Sentences
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Anthropic's boss, Dario Amodei, has come under fire for saying AI technology could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs and will "test who we are as a species".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Jensen proposes a machine-labor token tax to offset white-collar job disruption and fund safety oversight.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Any Black person with a job — especially white-collar professionals — had that gospel drilled into them by their parents long before the high-achieving Shonda Rhimes immortalized it in her show.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
In a cutthroat white-collar talent market, lawyers and bankers are listing quirky side pursuits like ‘building birdhouses’ and ‘hot dog eating.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Who would have thought that such a melange of black and white, male and female, blue-collar and white-collar workers, those who worked with their hands and those who worked with numbers, was actually possible?
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
