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laborer

[ley-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

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

Despite the repeated raids, the laborer said workers like himself have little choice but to keep showing up.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2025

But we found a half-dozen people and security records that proved that Mr. Hinton was locked inside a secure supermarket warehouse working as a night laborer fifteen miles away at the time of the crime.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

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

At the Randall plantation he continued his enterprise, joining the Sunday caravan into town with the moss sellers, penny seamstresses, and day laborers.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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