laborer
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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
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
There may have been a hierarchy of importance among the speakers, but everyone was heard, chief and subject, warrior and medicine man, shopkeeper and farmer, landowner and laborer.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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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 fruits of Tahnoon’s push are visible in the form of a massive construction site on a sandy patch of land miles from central Abu Dhabi, where thousands of laborers are working day and night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
But the community of skilled laborers and enthusiastic audiences who champion analog projection say it’s worth it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Araujo was picking up day laborers in a historically Latino neighborhood of Houston, Texas, when agents tried to stop his vehicle as part of a “targeted enforcement operation.”
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
In contrast, time after time, quarrels between skilled and unskilled laborers left the work force weak and defeated.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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