workhorses

plural of workhorse

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorses
Noun
  • The number of Japanese immigrants increased at the beginning of the 20th century and thousands found work as migrant laborers for white farmers.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In the early twentieth century, two groups of Indians living in America, young intellectuals and working-class laborers, had very different experiences of the country.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The items include bed frames, bedding, pillows, white-noise machines, area rugs, desk chairs, TVs and TV mounts.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • When staffing dips, the pressure mounts.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Some families had to go without benefits for several days this month, Haynes said, and many federal workers in the Sacramento region are going unpaid in a season when the demand for food assistance always soars.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • On the back end, VA is ramping up AI uses that ease the burden on workers.
    Adam Stone, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Just as MBAs worldwide have spawned a managerial caste — the foot soldiers of the corporate world — the reckoning schools produced their own commercial caste.
    Big Think, Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Like Obama in 2008, Mamdani has mobilized an army of foot soldiers, putting the social in social movement.
    Ben Adler, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • For their part, Samuel Adams and Paul Revere each worked hard to persuade Irishmen, Hessians, Indigenous people, and former slaves to defect to the patriot side.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The film, written by Barbosa alongside Werner Salles, is set in 1695 and sees a family of slaves organize a rebellion to flee in search of the utopian Quilombo dos Palmares following a call from the spiritual helm.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Robert will need to complete series of increasingly complicated hacks to help keep her alive and locate the power source that everyone is now after.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Today, thanks to the popularity of laundry hacks on social media, people are revisiting that method.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Workhorses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workhorses. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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