blue-collar
Example Sentences
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Companies will eventually need to replace aging workers and train a new generation, economists say, particularly in blue-collar jobs where the demand for labor is most acute.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
Nearly all my cousins still live in O.C., buying homes on blue-collar salaries and seeing their children off to colleges we didn’t have the opportunity to attend because we were discouraged by our parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
Bowling as we know it has always been a solidly blue-collar pursuit.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
I now know what blue-collar workers felt like in the 1970s!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Who would have thought that such a melange of black and white, male and female, blue-collar and white-collar workers, those who worked with their hands and those who worked with numbers, was actually possible?
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
