as in worker
a person who does very hard or dull work
they could only find work as laborers unloading cargo ships
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Recent Examples of laborer
As fears swirl that American manufacturing workers and skilled laborers may soon be replaced by artificial intelligence and robots, Alex Karp, CEO of the AI and data analytics software company Palantir Technologies, hopes to change the narrative.
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Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
On the Mauser Packaging Solutions plant floor, laborers do the dirty work of reconditioning steel containers used to transport chemicals.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Manual laborers and those living in rural areas experienced the largest health impacts.
—Simmone Shah, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
An orchestra is layered over African drums, and shots of Congolese laborers stacking and rolling goods are intercut with shots of dances.
—Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
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Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
On the Mauser Packaging Solutions plant floor, laborers do the dirty work of reconditioning steel containers used to transport chemicals.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Manual laborers and those living in rural areas experienced the largest health impacts.
—Simmone Shah, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
An orchestra is layered over African drums, and shots of Congolese laborers stacking and rolling goods are intercut with shots of dances.
—Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for laborer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laborer
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Rural farmers could receive payments, urban workers could send money home and millions joined the formal economy for the first time.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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It’s gotten so bad that, in one of the largest H-2A criminal cases ever, a federal judge described the abuse of these workers as a form of modern-day slavery.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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The first two episodes are entirely in the native Hawaiian language, and the arrival of some non-Hawaiian characters — mostly white stowaways and a Black slave — gradually introduces English into the mix.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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Arriving in America, Ann and her followers are outraged by their first sight of a slave auction.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Laborer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborer. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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