workingman
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They want the moribund broadsheet to trounce the Daily Mail and become the voice of the British workingman.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
To passers-by, he looked like any other workingman enjoying his lunch.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2017
It’s what a workingman might eat standing up while his daintier compatriots nibble on nigiri at a proper sushi bar; sushi that occasionally improves in a 7-Eleven refrigerator case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2017
Historians still debate over whom, specifically, to credit with the idea of a holiday dedicated to the workingman.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015
I want to wave my pound note at the world so they’ll say,There he goes, Frankie McCourt the workingman, with a pound in his pocket.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
It was as early as this phase in the company’s history that workingmen began to resent Pinkerton’s presence.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2019
Even in good times, workingmen complained that contempt for manual labor had undermined republican equality.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Like many of his peers, Sargent believed that the bodies of workingmen were deformed by their efforts, made asymmetrical and even weak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2016
Owen’s plan was to welcome everyone, even to the point of encouraging workingmen to visit in the evening, and to devote most of the museum’s space to public displays.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
