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Retail diesel prices promptly started climbing, spooking markets, because diesel is the workhorse fuel of the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Coming into Thursday, SpaceX had launched its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket 103 times in 2026.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

But unlike eloquent politicians known to be showhorses, enjoying the social media clips from their media hits, El-Sayed is a workhorse, and this combination makes him formidable.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Its rocket business revenue rose 29% to $962 million, as its smaller workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continues to dominate the launch business.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

As a child on farms in northern Minnesota, I had worked with workhorse teams—mowing and raking hay, cleaning barns with crude sleds and manure forks—and in the summer we would sometimes ride these workhorses.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

With 16 Academy Award nominations for cinematography, he’s two away from tying the record shared by Leon Shamroy and Charles Lang, two workhorses of the classic studio era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

You could, of course, build this blend from individual jars — thyme, oregano, paprika, cayenne — but these pantry workhorses are weeknight shortcuts to complexity.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

Nvidia’s chips, known as GPUs, are the main workhorses of the AI computing revolution.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Where the Southern California land meets the Pacific waters, the beaches are the glamour-pusses, but it’s the ports that are the workhorses that bring in the heavyweight bucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

It was pulled by a pair of heavy-boned workhorses, with broad chests and sturdy, thick-furred legs that churned like pistons.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood