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
This low-tech approach of having foot soldiers transport drones into action is a rare example of how drones can favor the offense rather than defense.
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David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
At present this may rely on the makeshift approach of using foot soldiers to move FPVs into position, but more sophisticated solutions are probably not far away.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Many of his foot soldiers are young software engineers with no government experience who have parachuted into federal agencies seeking to overhaul or even dismantle them.
—Theodore Schleifer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Controlled by Marines, its officers were Americans and the foot soldiers were Haitian.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
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David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
At present this may rely on the makeshift approach of using foot soldiers to move FPVs into position, but more sophisticated solutions are probably not far away.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Many of his foot soldiers are young software engineers with no government experience who have parachuted into federal agencies seeking to overhaul or even dismantle them.
—Theodore Schleifer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Controlled by Marines, its officers were Americans and the foot soldiers were Haitian.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foot soldier
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May 1 became associated with workers' rights in 1886 when hundreds of thousands of laborers in Chicago participated in a multi-day strike to push for an eight-hour workday.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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Their demands included wage increases, an end to outsourcing, and stronger protections for both domestic and migrant laborers.—
Thomas Adamson and Yuri Kageyama,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
Noun
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Mental health workers in small towns find such promises hard to trust after seeing local services come and go for years.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2025
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At the same time that Bass is proposing cuts to the Equity Bureau, her budget calls for an overall increase in Fire Department workers.—
Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Foot soldier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foot%20soldier. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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