as in worker
a person who does very hard or dull work
they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships
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Recent Examples of laborer
Much like his 19th century predecessors, protection offers Trump an appeal to diverse constituencies: manufacturing interests, union laborers, declining industrial towns in swing states, voters without college educations and access to tech jobs.
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Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
World & Nation Qatar’s mediation efforts in Israel-Hamas war come under fire
April 30, 2024
The vote also came about a year ahead of Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, an event that drew intense scrutiny from the West on both Doha’s treatment of foreign laborers and its system of governance.
—Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Or, rather, there were individual aristocrats, merchants, and laborers choosing different sides in these prerevolutionary moments.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
There were, however, several persisting skeleton hoaxes that captured attention:
Here are four of the most famous:
The Cardiff Giant Skeleton of 1869 in New York
In upstate New York, two laborers were digging a well on a farmer’s property when their shovels hit something hard.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
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Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
World & Nation Qatar’s mediation efforts in Israel-Hamas war come under fire
April 30, 2024
The vote also came about a year ahead of Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, an event that drew intense scrutiny from the West on both Doha’s treatment of foreign laborers and its system of governance.
—Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Or, rather, there were individual aristocrats, merchants, and laborers choosing different sides in these prerevolutionary moments.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
There were, however, several persisting skeleton hoaxes that captured attention:
Here are four of the most famous:
The Cardiff Giant Skeleton of 1869 in New York
In upstate New York, two laborers were digging a well on a farmer’s property when their shovels hit something hard.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for laborer
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“Laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborer. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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