workhorse

Example Sentences

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Hershey wants its 125-year-old, workhorse chocolate brand to work a little harder.

From The Wall Street Journal

Guggenheim thinks that GLP1s will remain the workhorses in obesity for the foreseeable future.

From Barron's

It sells workhorse beans, Eye of the Goat beans, beans with the spots of a cow and beans striped like zebras.

From The Wall Street Journal

"However, the power sector -- up till now the workhorse of emissions reduction -- cannot permanently offset the shortcomings in switching to climate technologies in transport and buildings."

From Barron's

The product of an upper-middle-class family and a so-so college, nose perennially pressed to the window—and to the grindstone—she is a workhorse.

From The Wall Street Journal