as in laborer
a person who does very hard or dull work
a youth striving to become something more than just a drudger working at some dead-end job
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Noun
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However, in contrast to the vision of free yeoman workers, historians have found that most laborers who arrived on the first ships were either indentured to individual masters or bound by some other kind of contract that limited their freedom.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025 -
This was a very common patriotic project for volunteer laborers in late‑war Japan—especially among those either too old or too young to perform more demanding and exacting full‑time war plant work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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After a mid-July fire broke out at the Franklin Walmart, shutting down the store, workers are thanking first responders with new grills and food.—
Erik S. Hanley,
jsonline.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Through Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, the president has similarly emphasized speed, pushing for federal workers to adopt AI as quickly as possible.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
14 Aug. 2025
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While lacking Earl’s ideological fervor, Reeves could still help his cause by finding him willing foot soldiers.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
8 July 2025
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Companies large and small are fighting to recruit big-name AI leaders and their foot soldiers, readily acknowledging that developing superintelligence, or AI that’s vastly smarter than humans, hinges on the work of actual humans.—
Verne Kopytoff,
Fortune,
4 July 2025
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“Drudger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drudger. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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