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“Just because you’re a white-collar worker, doesn’t mean you don’t deserve job security,” she said.

From Slate Feb. 9, 2023

“We can’t keep just thinking about the white-collar worker who’s going from Claremont, California, to Los Angeles,” said Darren Kettle, chief executive of the Los Angeles area’s Metrolink commuter rail.

From Washington Post Mar. 4, 2022

If you’re lucky, and you’re a white-collar worker, you’re now doing your job — which, let’s be honest, is mostly email anyway — from home.

From The Verge Mar. 13, 2020

Once again Rudd plays a burned-out white-collar worker — here, an advertising executive named Miles— whose best days are behind him, or so he believes.

From Salon Oct. 19, 2019

I couldn't have been a lawyer or a clerk or a white-collar worker.

From The Lost Warship by Williams, Robert Moore




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