workhorse

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Recent Examples of workhorse And the reviews say this Honeywell tower fan is a workhorse in that respect. Clint Davis, People.com, 3 July 2025 For true workhorse status, Gunderman has relied on her Hydro Flask (arguably the mother of all reusable water bottles) for a whopping nine years, toting it to countless gyms and volleyball sessions. Sara Coughlin, SELF, 26 June 2025 The venerable workhorse helicopter has become a symbol of the Army’s wars of the last 30 years. Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 14 June 2025 Over the past decade, English wine producers have deepened their understanding of Bacchus, a grape once seen primarily as a workhorse for crisp, grassy whites. Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for workhorse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
Noun
  • Broadway theaters subsist on stunt-cast revivals of old warhorses; book publishers rely disproportionately on backlist sales.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
  • Considering its financial predicament and wealth of center backs, Barca could be tempted to sell the South American warhorse if a European rival tables his asking price.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • In one of the tents set up for the devotees in the capital, laborer Ankit Gupta put out plates and food in anticipation of the arrival of the next group of pilgrims.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
  • The document lacks details on how states’ regulations would be judged, but some blue states, like California and New York, have already started passing laws protecting workers’ rights against AI—with support from unions and laborers.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024
  • In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • The technology is good for injury recovery in both humans and animals, long been used in equine therapy for racehorses.
    Kristin Auble, Vogue, 10 July 2025
  • According to The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, every horse who ran the race is a descendant of famed racehorse Secretariat.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Trump also directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of grand jury testimony, as pressure mounts from both critics and supporters demanding transparency.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield climbed to its highest level since 2008 on Tuesday as concerns about fiscal spending mount ahead of an upper house election.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • The world’s fourth-largest economy has traditionally been strict on immigration, but in recent years worked hard to attract more international tourists and foreign workers to counter a rapidly aging population and plunging birth rates.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
  • From that worker, Kane learned about the center and offered to volunteer.
    Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • His sweetbreads in pig trotter ragu evoke his memories of eating pork knuckle at his grandmother’s house.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.
    Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.
    Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024

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“Workhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workhorse. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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