labor

A further rise in unemployment could temper expectations for another hike, though the central bank has continued to emphasize tightness in the labor market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

An opening montage cuts between images of hard labor, horse dung and frozen laundry that’s too stiff to fold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

The rise of artificial intelligence could bring about serious short-term disruptions in the labor market, Fed governor Michael Barr says at an event at Yale University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

The ambassador thinks yearly visas or “something similar” to the 1950s-era bracero program are a “reasonable solution” for the American demand for cheap labor and the willingness of Mexicans to fill those positions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

About midnight—when the night is equal, as the elders say—my mom started to go into labor.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

He labors seven days a week as a construction worker, but goes out dancing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026

At Schaeffler, Digit labors alone inside a Plexiglas cage, moving baskets for four hours, recharging over lunch, then going again for another four hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

Much has been said, notably by the critic Harold Bloom, about the agony of the artist who labors under the shadow of the greats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

The hivemind refuses to hurt or kill any living being, states its preference for vegetarianism and merrily labors to care for the few who aren’t like them.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

Even the jaded horsemen would take a respite from their labors to see him, eating their breakfasts outdoors on the benches near the siding.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Such labored too-contemporary gags aren’t really the focus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Fields’s opening sentence spans 26 words, yet it never sounds labored.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The noise of backhoes, cranes and bulldozers echoed across Colombia's quake-hit cities on Sunday as workers labored to remove rubble, though the chance of finding survivors was slim a week after the disaster.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Thus far, however, this effort has yielded only a few dozen genetically modified long-haired mice, which evokes the Aesopian adage about the mountain that labored and brought forth a mouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

My breathing labored as I struggled to push on with the Operation Save Fig bike-a-thon.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Agility, an Oregon-based company whose robots are already laboring within a Plexiglas cage at an auto-parts factory, recently announced plans to go public at a valuation of $2.5 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

With a band laboring in the pit, the stage became a dance floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

A quarter-century Jean’s senior, David is trying to finish a stalled book project, laboring in the shadow of his more prolific and successful wife, Ann.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

We know that underneath, we’re laboring frantically to keep going — sometimes, even just to stay afloat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

There was left in the house, then, none but the uncle and his wife and son and Ching and the laboring men, besides Wang Lung and his youngest son and the fool.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck