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laborer

[ley-ber-er] / ˈleɪ bər ər /


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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 mechanics lien, also referred to as a contractor’s lien, is usually filed by an unpaid contractor, laborer or supplier, as a hold against the property.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2026

Tincher was now a manual laborer on one leg, but he was denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration the following year.

From Salon Nov. 2, 2025

The third of five children, she was born to a mother who was a cook and to a laborer father whom, though the parents had married, she didn’t meet until she was ten.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The company also launched a “workforce academy” program to train skilled laborers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

“People are talking about the future of day laborers, the future of immigrants, and immigrants are not in the discussion,” Alvarado said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

The fruits of Tahnoon’s push are visible in the form of a massive construction site on a sandy patch of land miles from central Abu Dhabi, where thousands of laborers are working day and night.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

The image was inspired by Alejandro Cartagena, a Dominican Republic-born Mexican creative who photographed carpooling laborers on the flatbeds along a highway in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

They were going downtown to jobs I knew about—jobs as laborers, cleaning people, messengers.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers




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