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worker

[wur-ker] / ˈwɜr kər /


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“I appreciate him being a Mainer from a small town,” said Connor Start, 18, a construction worker from Islesboro.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The looming impact of federal Medicaid cuts has reignited a long-simmering, costly battle between California’s medical industry and one of its largest health worker unions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The tracks were first spotted by a worker at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire four years ago - with paleontologists soon descending on the site.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

On the other hand, the older worker who holds onto a job for a few years longer but is then displaced may have a harder time finding a new one.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

He had not cried when that other social worker had called him to the principal’s office and told him his mother was in the hospital.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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