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Recent Examples of workhorse
The E190s were a workhorse of JetBlue’s fleet for almost two decades, but were definitely showing their age by 2025.
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
The rocket is designed to carry 100 tons of payload to low-Earth orbit, more than four times as much as SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Yes, Rimowa is a luxury workhorse, combining quality and performance in a single suitcase.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
The rookie is not expected to get a lot of touches; Kyren Williams is still the workhorse in this offense, after all.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
The rocket is designed to carry 100 tons of payload to low-Earth orbit, more than four times as much as SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Yes, Rimowa is a luxury workhorse, combining quality and performance in a single suitcase.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
The rookie is not expected to get a lot of touches; Kyren Williams is still the workhorse in this offense, after all.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
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Crimson Tide Year: 1995 Director: Tony Scott Runtime: 2h 3m Crimson Tide is from a time when Washington was the brash up-and-comer and Gene Hackman was the warhorse veteran.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below: For an old warhorse, Freaky Friday looks darn cute.—
Kirk Honeycutt,
HollywoodReporter,
12 July 2025
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The three of them crammed into a single room in a small blue house full of Spanish-speaking laborers.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
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Its origins trace back to the 19th century, when the mondine sang it—female laborers in Northern Italy's rice paddies—protesting brutal working conditions and lost youth.—
Amanda Castro
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?—
Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
16 July 2024
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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.—
Moira Hodgson,
WSJ,
30 Dec. 2021
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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.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Aug. 2025
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The camel can travel incredibly far on minimal resources, survive under the harshest conditions, and, when needed, run surprisingly fast - in the long run even outpacing the finest racehorse.—
Francois Botha,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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To watch Marvin Mims Jr. glide, his trainer Margin Hooks suggests, is to watch a racehorse.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
3 Sep. 2025
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Seen previously on models like NZXT’s own H6 Flow and the more recent APNX V1, angled fan mounts like those on the H9 Flow RGB offer the best of both worlds.—
Thomas Soderstrom,
PC Magazine,
13 Sep. 2025
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Those not chronically online might instinctively recoil at the term brain rot, with its vaguely gory connotations, especially as concern about the potential harms of social media for adolescents mounts.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Rural farmers could receive payments, urban workers could send money home and millions joined the formal economy for the first time.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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It’s gotten so bad that, in one of the largest H-2A criminal cases ever, a federal judge described the abuse of these workers as a form of modern-day slavery.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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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
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Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.—
Cody Godwin,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Workhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workhorse. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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