workhorse

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Recent Examples of workhorse Pickard was a workhorse for the T-birds back then and wound up setting the league’s all-time saves and minutes played records, doing so in just four seasons rather than the maximum five. Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 1 May 2025 This a chic travel workhorse for sophisticated travelers. Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025 Naturally, none of these heavy workhorses could be successfully raced on the Paris–Roubaix classic. Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025 Could one of them become the workhorse, similar to Marquez Cooper last season? Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for workhorse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
Noun
  • Cisco Systems The old tech warhorse, still crucial to many tech systems, will report Wednesday after the bell.
    Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 13 May 2025
  • Ride Giannis Into the Paint—and the Pacers Into the Ground With no Lillard for now, the Bucks’ offensive warhorse is back to full-time duty.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Vita's Ukrainian mother (my grandmother) survived as an orphan for two years under German occupation and barely evaded being carted off to Germany to work as a forced laborer.
    Sasha Vasilyuk, Time, 8 May 2025
  • But, as Levi history tells it, the wife of a local laborer came to Davis asking for pants that wouldn’t fall apart.
    Catherine Salfino, Sourcing Journal, 8 May 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
  • Snap Decision began his career as a solid enough racehorse, running for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey on tracks in New York and Florida.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2025
  • There's an entire section that dictates how to depreciate a racehorse over three years (true story), but try finding a simple explanation of whether your crypto losses offset your W-2 income.
    Darren T. Case, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The image stabilization is good enough to use it on a drone (custom mounts required).
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 12 May 2025
  • The top panel features two sets of 120mm fan mounts that, due to being 20mm offset from each other, also support 140mm fans around 33mm above the motherboard’s top edge.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Tia Carrere, who voiced Nani in the original, appears in the new film as the social worker Mrs. Kekoa.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • At the board meeting, Meadowview officials said a social worker spoke with students on Friday and counselors were at the school Monday.
    Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.
    Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • More than 1 million trotters will participate in those races.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
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 25 May. 2025.

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