workhorse

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Recent Examples of workhorse Extending the life of its workhorse 737s helped Boeing’s bottom line in the short run. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025 So, launches of the workhorse Falcon 9, which has already flown 75 times in 2025, should not be affected. Mike Wall, Space.com, 20 June 2025 Best Daily Trainer: Nike Vomero 18 Nike Vomero 18 Need a workhorse of a shoe that works well for pretty much any kind of run? Sara Coughlin, SELF, 9 June 2025 The workhorse dynamic of these people is so important to me. Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for workhorse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
Noun
  • The Club World Cup is the old warhorse in his element, the ego still raging after all this time.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • While the loss of Zach Hyman is potentially a big one, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (5-13-18), Evander Kane (5-6-11), defenseman Evan Bouchard (6-11-17) and 40-year-old warhorse Corey Perry (7-3-10) have all been in the thick of things.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • The South American liberation leader Simón Bolívar emancipated the slave laborers who worked on his family’s estate—unlike George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
    Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 30 June 2025
  • In Hollywood, officers raided the parking lot of a Home Depot where laborers and food vendors worked.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 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
  • Eight of his flat racehorses (as opposed to jump racing over fences) with four UK trainers are owned in partnership with Ian McAleavy, head of football for nine years at Starlizard, a global leader in specialist online sports betting advice established by Bloom in Camden, north London, in 2006.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • The shortlist includes a personal nuclear reactor, a thoroughbred racehorse farm, and a private submarine.
    J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • As pressure mounts, those numbers are only expected to grow.
    Troy Batterberry, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Death toll mounts in Israel Earlier Sunday in Israel, at least six people, including a 10-year-old and a 9-year-old, were killed when a missile hit an apartment building in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv.
    Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • With the new minimum in place, a full-time worker in the nation's capital will earn an additional $727 in annual wages, on average, according to the EPI's calculations.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 27 June 2025
  • Unifor had fired back that DHL is not one of the top four express package delivery companies in Canada, and that DHL workers represent fewer than 0.7 percent of all local delivery workers and less than 15 percent of all courier workers in the country.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 27 June 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 9 Jul. 2025.

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