laborer
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After returning to Bradford-on-Avon, Byfield initially supported himself as a farm laborer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
What to know: Two couples’ lives are messily intertwined when one—a wealthy woman with an even wealthier husband—taps the other—a laid-off laborer and his wife—to be the subjects of a documentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
According to tradition, Caedmon worked as a laborer at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
This laborer wants to know what you mean by labor becoming tokenized.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Jack, listed as a field laborer, was married to Aggy, the daughter of Jackson’s trusted carriage driver, Charles, and Charlotte, a house servant.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
The Transport Workers Union representing those laborers have vowed court action.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
As the sun sets, we see three laborers washing off the grime of a day’s work at a faucet near a work site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
She is one of several performers who play the roles known collectively as “Kinker & Roust,” slang terms for acrobats/aerialists and “roustabouts,” a.k.a. circus laborers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The lives of servants and laborers can be difficult to reconstruct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He had been one of the laborers who worked at the dig.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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