as in laborer
a person who does very hard or dull work
he's been a foot soldier for several environmental organizations over the years
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Recent Examples of foot soldier
Just as MBAs worldwide have spawned a managerial caste — the foot soldiers of the corporate world — the reckoning schools produced their own commercial caste.
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Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
Like Obama in 2008, Mamdani has mobilized an army of foot soldiers, putting the social in social movement.
—Ben Adler, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Just that this is not just a foot soldier.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
The book reaches beyond India, though, and lays out how a transnational empire of fraud is being built in which Indians, alongside unemployed young people from dozens of low-income countries, have become foot soldiers in these scamming operations, sometimes conscripted against their will.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
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Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
Like Obama in 2008, Mamdani has mobilized an army of foot soldiers, putting the social in social movement.
—Ben Adler, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Just that this is not just a foot soldier.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
The book reaches beyond India, though, and lays out how a transnational empire of fraud is being built in which Indians, alongside unemployed young people from dozens of low-income countries, have become foot soldiers in these scamming operations, sometimes conscripted against their will.
—Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foot soldier
Noun
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Few accessories are so simple as the beanie, whose provenance can be traced back to a simple woolen cap worn by laborers in the late Medieval period.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
16 Feb. 2026
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Just 36 hours later, the slave laborers and Berger-Moran, newly born, were loaded onto open coal wagons — filthy and open to the skies.—
Lesley Stahl,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Instead, the women and their husbands found out about the data center project from speaking directly to the workers hired to move dirt and dig runoff ditches ahead of construction.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2026
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Amazon has often fielded criticism of its warehouse working conditions, and has been cited in the past for exposing workers to ergonomic hazards.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Foot soldier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foot%20soldier. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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