as in laborer
a person who does very hard or dull work
most of the inhabitants of the seedy town are just downtrodden grubbers living from paycheck to paycheck
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Noun
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Many laborers are still exhausted and underpaid.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2026 -
Construction of the Pennsylvania Canal system, which connected Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in the 1830s, relied on Irish laborers to perform grueling excavation work.—
Paula Kane,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Videos and photos from the scene showed thick gray smoke billowing from the complex and some workers jumping from a building.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Mar. 2026
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The need for the factory, the Navy explains, is a major labor shortage for key skills like welding, precision machining workers, and other specialist engineers.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Grubber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubber. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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