as in laborer
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Noun
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The laborers who make these goods earn as little as $5 an hour, including overtime, for workdays that can last 10 hours or more.—
Keith Bradsher,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025 -
In Nepal, a U.S.-based nonprofit named the La Isla Network put on hold its work on chronic kidney disease, a deadly condition believed to be linked to heat stress and dehydration that has emerged as a threat to manual laborers in hot countries.—
ByCatherine Offord,
science.org,
5 Feb. 2025
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The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.—
Iain Martin,
Forbes,
4 Feb. 2025
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To start and end the day, visitors can dig into gourmet grub created by the ranch's on-site chef, Brian Doyle; his dishes are meant to evoke the spirit of the West and involve plenty of prime cuts and fresh fish.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Jan. 2025
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Burgers The Werks serves a robust menu of elevated pub grub, but the burgers are the star of the show.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
The Denver Post,
23 Jan. 2025
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The defective grandstand was a last-minute add-on; workmen were still hammering it together as people took their seats.—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Jan. 2025
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Florals appeared as embroideries and prints on workman jackets and corduroy pants adding an artisanal touch to the look, as seen in this Rue de Tokyo piece.—
Alex Badia,
WWD,
17 Jan. 2025
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Read full article Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.—
Peter Abraham,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 Aug. 2023
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Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes,
12 May 2021
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This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
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His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 Oct. 2024
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“Navvy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navvy. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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