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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

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

Khouy occasionally works as a laborer, helping people carry and load heavy bags of cloth, fruit, and rice from their wagon to the new market for a small fee.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

From the fourth century to the 14th—when sea travel gradually replaced overland caravans—merchants, laborers, religious leaders, and government officials from across Eurasia convened there to exchange goods and culture.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The impact of immigration enforcement varied among the assembled day laborers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

Scads of new laborers were needed to churn out nearly eighteen thousand engines in two years.

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




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