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Recent Examples of workhorse
When healthy, Lugo has been a workhorse on the mound.
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Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
The unalloyed success of the company’s smaller Falcon 9 rocket, which, with 467 successful flights, has become the world’s workhorse booster, stands as proof that that approach to R&D can work.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 May 2025
There are snappy pairs for speed, supportive options with tons of cushioning, and workhorses that hold up to everyday training.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 14 May 2025
Dixon’s work in revealing Fellow’s Aiden API and his own workhorse Aiden.
—ArsTechnica, 12 May 2025
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Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
The unalloyed success of the company’s smaller Falcon 9 rocket, which, with 467 successful flights, has become the world’s workhorse booster, stands as proof that that approach to R&D can work.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 May 2025
There are snappy pairs for speed, supportive options with tons of cushioning, and workhorses that hold up to everyday training.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 14 May 2025
Dixon’s work in revealing Fellow’s Aiden API and his own workhorse Aiden.
—ArsTechnica, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
Noun
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There will be one classical warhorse, one nearly-new title and one Broadway-style show.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
2 June 2025
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Cisco Systems The old tech warhorse, still crucial to many tech systems, will report Wednesday after the bell.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
13 May 2025
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One was a White farmer, while the others were Black laborers or security workers, police said.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
23 May 2025
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Consider android laborers harvesting crops at night while humans engage in creative endeavors by day.—
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
20 May 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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Leland Stanford, a former governor of California and a railroad tycoon, funded Muybridge’s experiments in motion photography to gain new information about racehorses.—
Bob Blaisdell,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 May 2025
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But there's also race history, manifested in fandom by Secretariat, the almost mystical champion racehorse known as Big Red who ruled the tracks in the mid-1970s.—
Javier Zarracina,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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As this season's team is put together, the tension mounts and new drama awaits.—
Stacy Lambe,
People.com,
4 June 2025
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As with several others, this photo again shows the 10mm gap between the bottom panel’s 2.5-inch drive mounts and the underside of the front fan’s air guide.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
31 May 2025
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Former President Barack Obama and Steve Bannon, a White House strategist during President Donald Trump’s first term, are both worried about the same thing: artificial intelligence displacing large numbers of white-collar workers.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
3 June 2025
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State government has made the education and training of skilled aerospace workers an important priority.—
Yogi Tharanibalan,
Hartford Courant,
3 June 2025
Noun
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His sweetbreads in pig trotter ragu evoke his memories of eating pork knuckle at his grandmother’s house.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.—
Cody Godwin,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
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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 10 Jun. 2025.
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