workhorse
Example Sentences
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Hershey wants its 125-year-old, workhorse chocolate brand to work a little harder.
Guggenheim thinks that GLP1s will remain the workhorses in obesity for the foreseeable future.
From Barron's
"However, the power sector -- up till now the workhorse of emissions reduction -- cannot permanently offset the shortcomings in switching to climate technologies in transport and buildings."
From Barron's
The product of an upper-middle-class family and a so-so college, nose perennially pressed to the window—and to the grindstone—she is a workhorse.
These workhorse chips represent the vast majority of global production.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.