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laborer

[lay-ber-er] / ˈleɪ bər ər /


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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

A slave laborer from Poland had done the stamping.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Ye-ji is making a documentary about the laborers and strike at SP, and she and her husband will become intimately involved in Ho-seok and Mi-ok’s life as the film proceeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

With data centers, the infrastructure stays, the tax base expands, and electricians, pipe fitters, ironworkers and laborers can spend years on a single project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The room was full of laborers crowding about and they answered in confusion and haste, “He would work himself at the threshing...”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck


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