blue-collar worker
Example Sentences
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Making community theater, one often has to beg, borrow and steal to cast a show, so it’s not out of the question that Rita might cajole a blue-collar worker like Dan into a rehearsal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2024
This is a concern for Ken Feng, a 50-year-old blue-collar worker in Shenzhen, who worries that his parents could be among the first to succumb.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2022
O’Connor was an unknown when Lear tapped him to play an unapologetic blue-collar worker from New York’s borough of Queens whose ignorance and intolerance was his own comic foil.
From Fox News • Aug. 7, 2021
I'm effectively a blue-collar worker in the dream factory.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2021
As the private space race opens up this new frontier for commerce, we need to imagine what life in space would look like for an ordinary blue-collar worker on a private mining or settlement mission.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2019