Sample Sentences forwhite-collar (auto-selected)
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That was why I was with a blue-collar agency instead of a white-collar agency.† (source)
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The white-collar workers along Lemmon Avenue are few in number and unexcited.† (source)
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Alongside these conflicting norms about the value of blue-collar work existed a massive ignorance about how to achieve white-collar work.† (source)
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The top search result for "Unless you leave a leg behind" was a news article called "How White-Collar Fugitives Survive on the Lam"; the quote in question referred to how difficult it is to fake your own death.† (source)
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The usual white-collar crowd gathered at the Tea Shoppe for breakfast and coffee, never tea, not at such an early hour.† (source)
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In fact, none of us were stereotypical duck hunters; we're not the white-collar guys who dress up in camo on the weekends and go hunting.† (source)
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She has hopes for him: graduation from high school, a white-collar job, maybe as an engineer.† (source)
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There is nothing anywhere in her records to indicate that she could hold down a white-collar job.† (source)
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My lawyer, Pat Cotter, had sent his share of white-collar clients off to prison.† (source)
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I defended murderers, thieves, drug dealers, prostitutes, white-collar embezzlers, wife beaters, and drunk drivers.† (source)
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Then you hear the melody again, one more time, the familiar march from Prokofiev, not the mock-heroic organ but full orchestra now, and the pitch is very different, forget the amusing radio reminiscence, it is all vigilance and suppression, the FBI in peace and war and day and night, your own white-collar cohort of the law.† (source)
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He began to sink into a rapidly fraying gentility, punctuated with a few of the white-collar occupations available to black people, regardless of their noble bloodlines, in America: desk clerk at a colored hotel in Chicago, insurance agent, traveling salesman for a cosmetics firm catering to blacks.† (source)
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Probably had a wife and two kids and a steady white-collar job that allowed him to slip away for an hour once a week for his nooner.† (source)
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Some 45 percent of the men in the Union sample had held professional or white-collar jobs in civilian life, compared with about 11 percent for the Union army as a whole.† (source)
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The country had no clear image of what he looked like: his photographs had appeared on the covers of magazines as frequently as those of his predecessors in office, but people could never be quite certain which photographs were his and which were pictures of "a mail clerk" or "a white-collar worker," accompanying articles about the daily life of the undifferentiated-except that Mr. Thompson's collars were usually wilted.† (source)
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This bloke that Hanby spoke to (he was just a little, ordinary chap with specs, white-collar type) said it had been so sudden—spontaneous was what he meant—and it just proved to Hanby once again how incendiary was the fabric of the capitalist system.† (source)
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