How to Use white-collar in a Sentence
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That work would go beyond white-collar jobs.
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Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
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At first glance, this seems like any other white-collar scheme.
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Paolo Confino,
Fortune,
12 June 2024
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But what about the white-collar wipeout?
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Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Just about half of those job losses will come from the white-collar world.
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Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
24 Mar. 2026
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Maybe white-collar types have 12 to 18 months left.
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Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2026
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Most of my cousins got white-collar jobs or joined the public sector.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
16 July 2024
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These are people for whom a white-collar job at a call center is a reach.
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Heller McAlpin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
5 Mar. 2024
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For someone in a white-collar job, those numbers can hit hard.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2026
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But those threats were aimed at white-collar tech workers who were not unionized.
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Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
13 Aug. 2024
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Now the working stiffs are white-collar people.
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Stuart Miller,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Those that did tended to go into what became white-collar jobs.
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Amy Lindgren,
Twin Cities,
5 July 2025
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He was billed as the white-collar boxer who had Whyte holding his hand.
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Chris McKenna,
New York Times,
8 May 2026
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There has been no economy-wide wave of white-collar layoffs.
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Jon Markman,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
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In short, the shift is a broad white-collar phenomenon, not just tech.
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Jennifer Moss,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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Two others had come to the industry after white-collar jobs in health care.
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Lauren Hilgers,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
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Two others had come to the industry after white-collar jobs in health care.
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Lauren Hilgers,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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The case was a boon to white-collar lawyers and a shot across the bow of international sports.
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Tariq Panja,
New York Times,
27 Jan. 2024
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This is most noticeable in white-collar jobs that can be done remotely.
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Sean Manning,
Forbes,
6 Sep. 2024
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About half of those who broke into the Capitol were white-collar workers.
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CBS News,
5 Jan. 2025
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My modest white-collar salary was twice what I’d been paid at any previous job.
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Literary Hub,
22 Dec. 2025
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Dude can’t talk for more than five seconds without confessing to a white-collar crime.
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Katie Rife,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2024
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But what Tess wants isn’t to be any ordinary white-collar worker.
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Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Enter LinkedIn, the brag board of choice for the white-collar worker.
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Zach Przystup,
Baltimore Sun,
1 Jan. 2024
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Some employers may soon have to pad their white-collar workers’ checks with overtime pay.
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Amber Burton,
Fortune,
19 July 2023
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Blue horizons Younger folks are losing trust in white-collar careers.
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Nick Rockel,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2024
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For decades, young people were told to go to college, with white-collar jobs like coding cast as the future.
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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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An alarming number of white-collar workers are taking big pay cuts when changing jobs.
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Kristin Stoller,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
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The white-collar types appear to enjoy this sandwich shop on the first floor of a commercial high-rise.
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David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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Over the same period, those in more white-collar professions saw more modest gains.
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David Harrison,
WSJ,
7 Apr. 2023
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Their prospects of access to higher education and white-collar jobs are bleak.
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Saumya Roy,
The Dial,
6 Jan. 2026
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