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
In actuality it had probably been a manual laborer, a field hand, with aspirations for something better.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Daniel Barbou, an 84-year-old grape picker, joined a small army of laborers in the scramble to harvest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Parton could have limited her tracks to farmers, coal miners, swing shifters, assembly line workers and other laborers whom country music constantly lionizes, and no one would have complained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The lives of servants and laborers can be difficult to reconstruct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The company also launched a “workforce academy” program to train skilled laborers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The laborers worked, in the main, silently, but more than one was openly a-wonder at the sixty-three photocells that required installation.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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