as in laborers
a person who does very hard or dull work
I worked for several years as a gofer and general dogsbody for a London publishing house
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Noun
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The pope, at this very moment, is having the fallen part of the Colosseum rebuilt; half a dozen mason’s apprentices, without any scaffolding, are righting the colossus on whose shoulders a nation, transformed into slave laborers, perished.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026 -
The trade was halted, and ships carrying Polynesian laborers were ordered back.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Crews began treating highways with brine after midnight Saturday, with 1,800 workers on 12-hour shifts, Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry said.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
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That act – passed in the wake of a wave of terror by government workers affiliated with racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan – does not apply to federal employees and could not be used in a case against Ross.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
25 Jan. 2026
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Congress has become the president’s foot soldiers.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
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Just as MBAs worldwide have spawned a managerial caste — the foot soldiers of the corporate world — the reckoning schools produced their own commercial caste.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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