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

"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

He also cautioned that he was unsure of the government's definition of a working person, adding: "We’ve got to find a different phraseology".

From BBC • Oct. 25, 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