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workhorse

[wurk-hawrs] / ˈwɜrkˌhɔrs /


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Customers and staff at the Workhorse bike repair café in west Cardiff gave mixed views about the cycle network in the capital.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025

Workhorse Route 512 will travel only between Everett Station and Lynnwood, instead of feeding Northgate Station.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

GM agreed to sell the plant to a newly-formed entity called Lordstown Motors founded by the former top executive at an electric truck maker called Workhorse Group.

From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department opened an investigation last year into trading in Workhorse shares around the time the news of the Postal Service contract was released.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022

A tireless and enthusiastic worker in the cause of kindness to dumb animals, he organized, many years ago, and still largely manages, the Decoration-Day Workhorse Parade—an institution which has been extraordinarily beneficent in its results.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane




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