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laborer

[lay-ber-er] / ˈleɪ bər ər /


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After returning to Bradford-on-Avon, Byfield initially supported himself as a farm laborer.

From Science Daily ● 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

The noise is in earshot of the IDEPSCA’s day laborer center, one of five operated by the organization that have supported workers for over two decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

My father went to work every day dressed in the blue uniform of a city laborer, but at night he showed us what it meant to love jazz and art.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Daniel Barbou, an 84-year-old grape picker, joined a small army of laborers in the scramble to harvest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Parton could have limited her tracks to farmers, coal miners, swing shifters, assembly line workers and other laborers whom country music constantly lionizes, and no one would have complained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The lives of servants and laborers can be difficult to reconstruct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The company also launched a “workforce academy” program to train skilled laborers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Then when this harvest came he and Ching alone could not harvest it, so great it was, and Wang Lung hired two other men as laborers who lived in the village and they harvested it.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck




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