workhorse
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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
He was both a workhorse and a charmer, admired equally by his elders and the young women in town.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Nvidia’s graphics processing unit chips, or GPUs, are the workhorses of AI computing, and they’re the company’s main source of sales.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Gus Atkinson and Carse could be the workhorses of the tour.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
These monsters have supplanted coal generators as the workhorses of the U.S. power grid because they are more efficient, less polluting and more flexible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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
“I have all my teeth and all my hair, two fine workhorses, a four-room house, and twenty acres of land beside. I work hard and I do not smell all that bad, eh, little Chaya?”
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
