laborer
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After returning to Bradford-on-Avon, Byfield initially supported himself as a farm laborer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
What to know: Two couples’ lives are messily intertwined when one—a wealthy woman with an even wealthier husband—taps the other—a laid-off laborer and his wife—to be the subjects of a documentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
According to tradition, Caedmon worked as a laborer at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
This laborer wants to know what you mean by labor becoming tokenized.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Grandfather Harry Tallis was the son of a farm laborer who, for some reason, had changed his name from Cartwright and whose birth and marriage were not recorded.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Their laborers came cheap, often Native Americans dispossessed from their own rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
When the 380-foot steamship Great Republic—one of the world’s largest passenger vessels at the time—arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong, 1,300 blue-coated Chinese laborers filed down its gangplank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
As the sun sets, we see three laborers washing off the grime of a day’s work at a faucet near a work site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The strikes would open the public’s and the press’s eyes to the plight of America’s laborers.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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