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Recent Examples of workhorse
The Dragon spacecraft is SpaceX's workhorse for moving crew and cargo to the ISS in low-Earth orbit.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 25 July 2025
Pacheco had been a workhorse in that game against the Bengals, rushing for 90 yards on 19 carries.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025
Franklin and receiver Trent Sherfield Jr. were signed this offseason to be special teams workhorses and that’s part of the reason Strnad is back, too.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 19 July 2025
The program remains the workhorse of the U.S. immigration system.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 25 July 2025
Pacheco had been a workhorse in that game against the Bengals, rushing for 90 yards on 19 carries.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2025
Franklin and receiver Trent Sherfield Jr. were signed this offseason to be special teams workhorses and that’s part of the reason Strnad is back, too.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 19 July 2025
The program remains the workhorse of the U.S. immigration system.
—Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
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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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Broadway theaters subsist on stunt-cast revivals of old warhorses; book publishers rely disproportionately on backlist sales.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
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However, in contrast to the vision of free yeoman workers, historians have found that most laborers who arrived on the first ships were either indentured to individual masters or bound by some other kind of contract that limited their freedom.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025
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This was a very common patriotic project for volunteer laborers in late‑war Japan—especially among those either too old or too young to perform more demanding and exacting full‑time war plant work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 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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The train that rings Vesuvius makes its rounds as racehorses train along the shore.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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All 21 horses racing in this year's Kentucky Derby are reportedly descendants of the famed racehorse Secretariat, according to The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
3 May 2025
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Leadership stumbles, hidden value is ignored, and then the pressure mounts.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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As the war draws on and the civilian death toll mounts, multiple human rights organizations and a handful of U.S. lawmakers have characterized the events in Gaza as a genocide — an assertion that Israeli officials have forcefully rejected.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
5 Aug. 2025
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Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images In one of the world’s most expensive cities, more workers are living paycheck to paycheck The Singapore consumer’s reputation for financial prudence and high savings is showing signs of strain.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
14 Aug. 2025
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With the recent signing of an executive order aimed at allowing 401(k) plans to include alternative investments such as private equity, private credit, real estate and cryptocurrency, more American workers could gain access to investment vehicles that were once off-limits to most retirement savers.—
Gregory Clifford,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 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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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
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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 20 Aug. 2025.
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