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
Local 724, the Hollywood laborers’ group, in a landmark election that took place Friday.
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Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
None of that would happen without thousands of electricians, carpenters, construction laborers, plumbers and other skilled tradespeople, who have triggered an economic boom in the city of 130,000.
—Andrew Schaap, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
And in Longo’s image, the subtext is the absent laborer.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
As fears swirl that American manufacturing workers and skilled laborers may soon be replaced by artificial intelligence and robots, Alex Karp, CEO of the AI and data analytics software company Palantir Technologies, hopes to change the narrative.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
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Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
None of that would happen without thousands of electricians, carpenters, construction laborers, plumbers and other skilled tradespeople, who have triggered an economic boom in the city of 130,000.
—Andrew Schaap, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
And in Longo’s image, the subtext is the absent laborer.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
As fears swirl that American manufacturing workers and skilled laborers may soon be replaced by artificial intelligence and robots, Alex Karp, CEO of the AI and data analytics software company Palantir Technologies, hopes to change the narrative.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laborer
Noun
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Rural farmers could receive payments, urban workers could send money home and millions joined the formal economy for the first time.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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It’s gotten so bad that, in one of the largest H-2A criminal cases ever, a federal judge described the abuse of these workers as a form of modern-day slavery.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The 1850 version mandated that the federal government actively help slave catchers track and apprehend people who’d escaped slavery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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Inside the first Colosseum, the masses of Rome watched slaves and animals butcher one another.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborer. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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