laborer
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After returning to Bradford-on-Avon, Byfield initially supported himself as a farm laborer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 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
This laborer wants to know what you mean by labor becoming tokenized.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
McCandless was smallish with the hard, stringy physique of an itinerant laborer.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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
The lives of servants and laborers can be difficult to reconstruct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The company also launched a “workforce academy” program to train skilled laborers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“You have to ask the laborers what is it that they think, what they want, and I don’t think that that has happened.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
In 1917, a newly organized meatpacking workers' union called the Stockyards Labor Council made plans to bring the new black laborers into the fold.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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