laborer
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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
Pity that “Train Dreams” will likely go as unheralded as Edgerton’s humble laborer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
My dad worked as a laborer, and we didn’t have much, but I was never hungry in my life.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
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
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
Leaders envisioned a powerful show of unity, a massive crowd of blacks and whites together parading through the Black Belt, crossing as one over the deadline, celebrating their common bond as laborers.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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