laborer
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A pair of blue and yellow earplugs dangle on Jose’s neck while waiting for work as a day laborer out of the Home Depot in Cypress Park.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
Tincher was now a manual laborer on one leg, but he was denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration the following year.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
Instead of Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren playing picture-perfect Mitch and Melanie, the original presents Nat Hocken, a disabled war veteran who works as a farm laborer, and whose wife remains a nameless domestic drudge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Ricardo, who earns a meager income as a day laborer, shares his small single-family house with 18 other people, including his three children, parents and other extended family.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
If he forced them to hold down their costs, he would have to do the same with every merchant, laborer, and farmer doing business in town.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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