laborer
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According to tradition, Caedmon worked as a laborer at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
He chatted with a day laborer who stopped by to grab a snack, and explained they were there to film any interactions with federal agents, as part of their national rapid-response effort.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025
Tincher was now a manual laborer on one leg, but he was denied disability benefits by the Social Security Administration the following year.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
Instead of Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren playing picture-perfect Mitch and Melanie, the original presents Nat Hocken, a disabled war veteran who works as a farm laborer, and whose wife remains a nameless domestic drudge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
He would now have to hobble around as an unskilled laborer on a construction crew.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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