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Recent Examples of workhorse
Broad-leaved and needled evergreen shrubs are the workhorses of winter, providing enduring structure and color.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
Maybe no Chiefs player benefited from the late-season layoff more than Kareem Hunt, who had been the team’s workhorse while Pacheco was recovering from injuries.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
In fact, Tuesday's success brought the number of its orbital-class rocket landings to an even 400, the company announced via X.
The vast majority of those touchdowns have been achieved by the Falcon 9, SpaceX's workhorse rocket.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
But Musk also got a powerful boost from Pentagon launch contracts and NASA–the latter in 2006 gave the company $278 million to develop a more powerful rocket, the Falcon 9, that has become the company’s workhorse.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
Maybe no Chiefs player benefited from the late-season layoff more than Kareem Hunt, who had been the team’s workhorse while Pacheco was recovering from injuries.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
In fact, Tuesday's success brought the number of its orbital-class rocket landings to an even 400, the company announced via X.
The vast majority of those touchdowns have been achieved by the Falcon 9, SpaceX's workhorse rocket.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
But Musk also got a powerful boost from Pentagon launch contracts and NASA–the latter in 2006 gave the company $278 million to develop a more powerful rocket, the Falcon 9, that has become the company’s workhorse.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
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Going to celebrate the Passover, Jesus chose to enter the city on the back of a colt, in stark contrast to the warhorses and chariots of Roman armies.—
Lynne Silva-Breen,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.—
Charles McGrath,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2024
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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
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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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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?—
Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
16 July 2024
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In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.—
Moira Hodgson,
WSJ,
30 Dec. 2021
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In addition to leading one of the most progressive, esoteric, and liberalized sects of Islam, the imam was an accomplished racehorse breeder and proponent of Islamic architecture.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
4 Feb. 2025
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An extraordinarily valuable racehorse, alone in his stall one night, was fatally injured.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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But after the first install, in which frame mounts are added to the steering arms, installation is as easy as changing a tire and wheel.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Feb. 2025
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Tabatha’s wariness mounts, and Tracey, in her laidback way, is on high alert, culminating in a strong scene between Ehle and McNairy.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Children, veterans, active-duty military personnel, front-line workers and medical personnel can enter for free.—
Genevieve Redsten,
Journal Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
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Legal experts question the legality of the mass layoffs, which workers criticize as poorly handled and potentially damaging to critical federal government operations, Axios' Emily Peck writes.—
Lauren Floyd,
Axios,
15 Feb. 2025
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More than 1 million trotters will participate in those races.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
26 Nov. 2024
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The news comes hot on the trotters of social media sensation Moo Deng at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand earlier this year.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN,
6 Nov. 2024
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Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
19 Apr. 2024
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Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.—
Ashley Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2024
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“Workhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workhorse. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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