workhorses

noun

plural of workhorse
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as in warhorses

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as in laborers

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  1. warhorses
  2. laborers
  3. mounts
  4. pluggers
  5. hacks
  6. workers
  7. chargers
  8. foot soldiers
Noun
  • The two old warhorses spent six years together at Madrid and won four Champions League titles.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • Perhaps most notably, the annual opera program will divert from the Pacific Symphony’s traditional Verdi and Puccini Italian operatic warhorses.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
Definition of warhorses
Noun
  • Many worked as laborers in building projects in an era of Western colonial rule across much of Asia.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Built in 1610 by Spanish and Indigenous laborers, the church was destroyed in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt that drove Spanish colonizers out of the region for 12 years.
    — Dan Fellner, AZCentral.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of laborers
Noun
  • Preservationists have voiced concerns that vibrations created by the cars could damage artworks by cracking canvases or loosening mounts.
    — Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Best for beginners and found on almost all low-cost models, these are simple (alt-az) mounts that move a scope up and down and left and right.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of mounts
Noun
  • Unfortunately for Jorgensen, just about every Big Ten roster has a post player like Fielder — long, quick pluggers with a hard elbow in your ribs and a soft touch at the rim.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2026
Definition of pluggers
Noun
  • The company is looking to significantly grow its revenue in this area, pitching businesses on using its models to prevent hacks and breaches.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Californians are no strangers to the many, many health and longevity hacks on the market.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of hacks
Noun
  • At the same time, many of these tech companies, like Microsoft and IBM, have been providing accessible professional certificate programs to workers across the globe in hopes of closing the skills gap.
    — Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Chesnot | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images The platform at one point served more than 500,000 workers, also referred to as turkers, according to Amazon.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of workers
Noun
  • Anker, arguably the king of phone chargers, created a compact, wireless, magnetic backup charger for your iPhone.
    — Carlos Mejia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • These new chargers from Ugreen are aimed at MacBook Air and Neo owners who want a power charger with a little more power.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Definition of chargers
Noun
  • But the current Sinaloa turf war—la narcopandemia, locals call it—has created new categories of victims, far from the foot soldiers and hit men targeted in previous spasms of violence.
    — Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Before the whole scene of domestic bliss is cut short, Cruz and Josie discuss their looming irrelevance as human foot soldiers in a future of wars fought by machines, finding brief solace in each other’s out-of-uniform bodies.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of foot soldiers
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