workhorse
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For decades, at the chairman’s direction, before each meeting, staff sent policymakers three options for the workhorse policy statement: the chairman’s preferred proposal, flanked by a more dovish and a more hawkish alternative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
The massive plane remains a workhorse for the Air Force seven decades after it debuted in the 1950s, and military officials believe the fleet can continue through the century mark with regular modifications and modernization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
The analyst expects Starship to be used mostly internally, launching SpaceX’s Starlink and other satellites to orbit, and for SpaceX to phase out its Falcon 9 workhorse rocket.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
The Falcon 9 rocket became the company's workhorse, and has carried out hundreds of missions.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Finally, I had a coach who was willing to climb on board my crazy workhorse train, to put in the hours and grind.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Nvidia’s graphics processing unit chips, or GPUs, are the workhorses of AI computing, and they’re the company’s main source of sales.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
With 16 Academy Award nominations for cinematography, he’s two away from tying the record shared by Leon Shamroy and Charles Lang, two workhorses of the classic studio era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Where the Southern California land meets the Pacific waters, the beaches are the glamour-pusses, but it’s the ports that are the workhorses that bring in the heavyweight bucks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
I love all the workhorses, because you need them.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
The tanker was huge, one of the workhorses of the oil age, almost a floating city in itself.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
