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laborer

[ley-ber-er] / ˈleɪ bər ər /


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Written by Jimmy Webb and released in 1968, it tells the lonely story of a laborer in Kansas who imagines the voice of the woman who got away humming down the endless telephone wires.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 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

Almost anything would have been better than Pipeworks laborer.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

Araujo was picking up day laborers in a historically Latino neighborhood of Houston, Texas, when agents tried to stop his vehicle as part of a “targeted enforcement operation.”

From Slate Jul. 8, 2026

During the day, the Figueroas’ neighborhood hums with laborers and vendors selling Red Bull drinks and fried food from their cars.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

And while it details Jewish participation in, and influence on, global soccer, it also challenges the cliché that Jews were intellectuals, artists and laborers but not athletes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

"He should resign, damn it!" shouted the crowd of farmers, laborers, miners, transport workers and teachers who brought traffic to a halt on the streets of the Andean city.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

As of this writing, today’s disparity between rich and poor is as wide as the divide between Swift and his laborers one hundred years ago.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield




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