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laborer

[lay-ber-er] / ˈleɪ bər ər /


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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

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

He must have entered the slaughterhouse with another group of strikebreakers, for he wore the worn denim jeans and collarless shirt of a laborer.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Ye-ji is making a documentary about the laborers and strike at SP, and she and her husband will become intimately involved in Ho-seok and Mi-ok’s life as the film proceeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

North Korean workers in Russia typically live in dormitories next to production facilities, said Alisa Svitova, a 21-year-old student who worked this year as an interpreter for North Korean laborers in Russian agricultural factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

She is one of several performers who play the roles known collectively as “Kinker & Roust,” slang terms for acrobats/aerialists and “roustabouts,” a.k.a. circus laborers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

After they had gone we laborers looked rather emptily across the newly cleared rails at each other, at ourselves, and not even Brinker thought of the timely remark.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles


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