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using a lot of time and energy to do work
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Recent Examples of hardworking
And when agencies start using predatory tactics to target hardworking families — when kids get caught in the middle, when holidays turn into trauma — that’s not safety.
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2025
Even just the uncertainty will push hardworking folks out of the industry, limit what’s being made, and stifle investment in the kind of original projects that do keep the flame of Hollywood-style storytelling alive.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
For example, one Santa with hearing loss told grotto visitors that his cochlear implants were, in fact, microphones for speaking to their hardworking elves.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
The lyrical documentary from Oscar nominee Tamara Kotevska (Honeyland) returns to her North Macedonia home in crafting the portrait of 60-year-old Nikola Conev, a hardworking farmer struggling to keep his family afloat amid harsh environmental conditions and government intervention.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2025
Even just the uncertainty will push hardworking folks out of the industry, limit what’s being made, and stifle investment in the kind of original projects that do keep the flame of Hollywood-style storytelling alive.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
For example, one Santa with hearing loss told grotto visitors that his cochlear implants were, in fact, microphones for speaking to their hardworking elves.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
The lyrical documentary from Oscar nominee Tamara Kotevska (Honeyland) returns to her North Macedonia home in crafting the portrait of 60-year-old Nikola Conev, a hardworking farmer struggling to keep his family afloat amid harsh environmental conditions and government intervention.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hardworking
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Visiting the restaurant has become an expression of the purest form of Panthers fandom — and that’s helped make this week quite busy ahead of the Panthers’ first home playoff game in 10 years.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Jan. 2026
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Those who remain are concentrated in Venezuela’s cities, including its capital, Caracas, where the street market in the Catia neighborhood once was so busy that shoppers bumped into one another and dodged oncoming traffic.—
Regina Garcia Cano,
Fortune,
10 Jan. 2026
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But such diligent injury prevention doesn’t address the root cause of Rec League Dysmorphia.—
Grace Perry,
Outside,
1 Jan. 2026
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Iran thus has every right to demand that the IAEA be diligent in observing its own procedures and codes of conduct on impartiality, objectivity, confidentiality, and sensitivity to national security concerns in exchange for continued cooperation.—
Mohammad Javad Zarif,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Dec. 2025
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Ganjehei immediately put the industrious studio runners on the job of turning the soundstage into Bieber’s private court.—
Katie Atkinson,
Billboard,
5 Jan. 2026
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Indiscriminate mass deportation of our law abiding, industrious, dutiful neighbors only recently arrived?—
Connor Greene,
Time,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Hardworking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardworking. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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