working people
Example Sentences
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“Whether they’re farmworkers or construction workers, hotel workers, restaurant workers, nannies who take care of children, these are working people, and yet they are being treated as if they were some sort of horrible criminals.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"We have chosen to focus on the cost of living in our first week, signalling that concern for working people will be at the heart of everything we do," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Rags-to-riches stories tend to be as fabulistic as tales designed to sell the upper class as fair and solicitous to the needs of working people, or amenable to Cinderella fantasies.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
“This is the relief that working people across our city deserve,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Five nights a week the working people of the Pantheon quarter danced there.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
