as in laborers
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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Around a thousand union laborers were laid off.—
Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026 -
Many employers otherwise perform only superficial efforts at verification of legal status of employees, confident that enforcement agencies will target laborers, not management.—
Federico Peña,
Denver Post,
21 Feb. 2026
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Borth and her co-workers quickly identified 11 families at their school alone who were in need of groceries the first week in January.—
Nick Woltman,
Twin Cities,
22 Feb. 2026
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Fast food workers can attest to the fact strange things happen after dark at the drive-thru, and an example played out Friday night at the McDonald’s in Henderson, North Carolina.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Feb. 2026
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Drone task force security model Haiti National Police Director Andre Jonas Vladimir Paraison said gang leaders are running and hiding while deploying their foot soldiers to the front lines.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
27 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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“Drudgers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drudgers. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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