laborer

According to tradition, Caedmon worked as a laborer at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

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

The glamour of Wall Street had replaced the dignity of the skilled laborer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

In actuality it had probably been a manual laborer, a field hand, with aspirations for something better.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

During the day, the Figueroas’ neighborhood hums with laborers and vendors selling Red Bull drinks and fried food from their cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

And while it details Jewish participation in, and influence on, global soccer, it also challenges the cliché that Jews were intellectuals, artists and laborers but not athletes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

So local officials are weighing a developer’s pitch to erect a “temporary workforce housing complex” for as many as 5,600 laborers and tradespeople.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Josie could hear the traffic on the street outside—lots of early-morning laborers like her dad were already headed off to work.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix