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Recent Examples of workhorse
The Air Force needs to clean up its act on buying spare parts for its workhorse C-17, the Pentagon inspector general announced Tuesday, blasting the service for spending 80 times the commercial rate for soap dispensers.
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Commonly used in pickups, that type of basic structure is associated with workhorse capability and off-roading.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
This workhorse pan is completely nonstick—perfect for beginners—holds just enough food for one, and comes in an array of fun colors too.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2024
Even SpaceX’s workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9, which was responsible for SpaceX doing 90% of U.S. launches in 2023, can’t carry more than 50,265 pounds to low earth orbit when its booster is reused.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Commonly used in pickups, that type of basic structure is associated with workhorse capability and off-roading.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
This workhorse pan is completely nonstick—perfect for beginners—holds just enough food for one, and comes in an array of fun colors too.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2024
Even SpaceX’s workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9, which was responsible for SpaceX doing 90% of U.S. launches in 2023, can’t carry more than 50,265 pounds to low earth orbit when its booster is reused.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
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The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
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At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
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Industry celebrates Enbridge approval Industry and labor groups celebrated the approval Thursday, especially because Enbridge has contracted with Michaels Construction for the project that is expected to employ Wisconsin laborers.Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024
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According to Boston University's Korean Diaspora Project, when the then-sovereign state was annexed by the U.S. in 1898, plantation owners in Hawaii requiring cheap labor led to an influx of Chinese workers from Canton, as well as laborers from Korea.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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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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One other factor is that there will likely be fewer deaths because the foal crop is in serious decline, meaning fewer racehorses.John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Among this group of donors are CEOs, lawyers and racehorse owners.Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
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The aluminum mount is super strong, and attaches to basically anything—a camper, roof rack, your 4Runner’s trunk, or a truck bed’s tie down rails.The Editors, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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Berger mounts whispered conversations in shadowy hallways, deploys slow-motion sequences backed up by an operatic score, and builds striking tableaus of cardinals warily eyeing one another—elements that are then deliberately paired with hammy, self-aware dialogue.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Sometime later, a passing pipeline company worker pulled the vehicle from the ditch.Ryan J. Foley, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
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The company issued a follow-up notification at 10:41 a.m. that workers responded to a vapor release while performing maintenance on equipment.Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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One Studios International is getting on its trotters through its eye-catchingly titled doc If Pigs Could Talk.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
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The steaming pigeon and trotter pie at St. John comes to mind, as does a haunch of venison, served on lush spring greens, at the aforementioned Palmerston.Will Hawkes, Saveur, 29 May 2024
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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 30 Nov. 2024.
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