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Recent Examples of workhorse
The bulb vegetable is a workhorse used on sandwiches, burgers, tacos, and nachos as well as in sauces, salads, meatloaf, and more.
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Stacey Lastoe,
Southern Living,
14 June 2026
Presently, most commercial systems use a mixture of C-band (the workhorse) and L-band wavelengths.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
13 June 2026
Unlike the workhorse Falcon 9, Starship is being designed to be fully reusable, the holy grail of space launch.
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Morgan Brennan,harriet Taylor,
CNBC,
12 June 2026
The eighth-gen Lenovo ThinkBook 16 is a business-ready workhorse ready to take on everything from everyday browsing to heavier tasks, like keeping all those tabs open while running multiple other applications in the background.
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Kelsey Fogarty,
PC Magazine,
10 June 2026
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Stacey Lastoe,
Southern Living,
14 June 2026
Presently, most commercial systems use a mixture of C-band (the workhorse) and L-band wavelengths.
—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
13 June 2026
Unlike the workhorse Falcon 9, Starship is being designed to be fully reusable, the holy grail of space launch.
—
Morgan Brennan,harriet Taylor,
CNBC,
12 June 2026
The eighth-gen Lenovo ThinkBook 16 is a business-ready workhorse ready to take on everything from everyday browsing to heavier tasks, like keeping all those tabs open while running multiple other applications in the background.
—
Kelsey Fogarty,
PC Magazine,
10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
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Strange but true; there could be a little more life in this old warhorse yet.
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Perhaps most notably, the annual opera program will divert from the Pacific Symphony’s traditional Verdi and Puccini Italian operatic warhorses.
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For American diners of diverse backgrounds, chop suey struck an enticing balance between novelty and decipherability, which propelled it to national popularity even as the US government moved to exclude Chinese laborers from entering the country in 1882.
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Filipino laborers came to Mexico via colonialism, and adapted and adopted champoy with spices and chilies from Mexico to become chamoy.
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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
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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.
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Since ’18-19, the winger has served valiantly as a bottom-6 high motor, a plugger who refuses to downshift during big moments.
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This tablet rocks up to 13 hours of battery life which is helpful to keep your kids engaged and attentive without constantly being asked where the plugger is.
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The famous real-life 19th-century racehorse Lexington is at the center of this expansive novel that travels fluidly between antebellum South and modern-day Washington, DC.
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DeVaux and Ortiz cited Golden Tempo’s growth as a racehorse as decisive to his victory.
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Yet the story of the toiler turned tycoon persisted.
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Carter further complicates things in last week’s episode, when he drunkly tears an animal mount off the wall during Oreana’s grandmother’s big party at the 10-Petal Ranch.
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Cerebras is, however, facing pressure to open more data centers, as are cloud infrastructure providers, while public opposition mounts and permitting processes can drag on.
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If a co-worker asks for help, set a clear window so your schedule stays protected.
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One of the options presented must be placing a premium on companies with at least 250 employees, who don’t offer health coverage, to offset the cost to taxpayers for having their workers enrolled in Medi-Cal, according to the deal.
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“Workhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workhorse. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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