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laborer

[lay-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

His father, Charles, had expanded the New Jersey real estate development business his grandfather, a Polish Holocaust survivor, had begun after starting out as a construction laborer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

Nearly two weeks later, a laborer who had been in the station discovered that the bullet had penetrated his work kit and fallen inside it.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 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

Daniel Barbou, an 84-year-old grape picker, joined a small army of laborers in the scramble to harvest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

When we leave the chapel, we find the soldiers and laborers gathered at the cook fire.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone


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