laborer
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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
The government’s explanations for the arrests, wrote Judge Jennifer Thurston in Fresno, “rely on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
Grandfather Harry Tallis was the son of a farm laborer who, for some reason, had changed his name from Cartwright and whose birth and marriage were not recorded.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The lives of servants and laborers can be difficult to reconstruct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
Sheri Lochner, a 64-year-old Monrovia resident, is part of East Pasadena Community Defense Corner, a small group that “provides support and a sense of community” for day laborers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Were there contractors and laborers working around the clock on a prison days after the hurricane?
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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