laborer
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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
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
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
For everyday work, Kira helped in the weaving shed, picking up the scraps and leavings, but her twisted leg diminished her value as a laborer and even, in the future, as a mate.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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