laborer
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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
After returning to Bradford-on-Avon, Byfield initially supported himself as a farm laborer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
“But if we do nothing, how will we be heard?” another day laborer asked during the group discussion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
According to tradition, Caedmon worked as a laborer at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
Whitiker sent Nicholas to live with his father, a laborer who had married, had other children, and lived on the other side of town.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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
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 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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