as in worker
a person who does very hard or dull work
they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships
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Recent Examples of laborer
The 2025-26 cycle, in its early stages, has also mobilized students, laborers, women, and ethnic minorities, suggesting the potential for broader mobilization amid unbearable economic conditions.
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Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
But also Teddy Roosevelt was able to knit that country divided between country and city and East and West back together again during the 20th century by taking a whistle-stop train around the country with the same message of a square deal for the rich and the poor, the capitalist and the laborer.
—Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
The laborers union has spent heavily on local politics in recent years.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
In Muslim villages, Sacco’s interviewees tell him that only women and children threw stones; among the Jats, the party line is that no Muslim laborers were killed, and everyone left peacefully on their own.
—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
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The same Georgia plant where Hyundai plans to test out Atlas was the site of a federal immigration raid last year that led to the arrests of hundreds of workers, including more than 300 South Korean citizens.—
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Karmen Black, a licensed social worker and Minneapolis resident, received the Heroic Act Award from the United States Lifesaving Association on Monday during a ceremony at Minneapolis Fire Station 5.—
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But Aden also holds the hotel where Rimbaud once lived, while working as an arms dealer, as well as slave trader, according to some biographies.—
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Using the database, one study suggests that open resistance may have occurred in as many as 10 percent of slave voyages.—
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“Laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborer. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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