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Recent Examples of workhorse
Save $148 on this big-screen workhorse while this sale price lasts.
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Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
However, a key workhorse for providing vertical profiles of the atmosphere is the weather balloon.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Saucepans are true kitchen workhorses, ready to get to work for your morning oatmeal, instant noodles, steamed rice, even just heating up that jar of grocery store marinara.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2025
That shift was not a huge surprise; Relativity Space had stressed that the Terran 1 was a pathfinder for the more powerful Terran R.
The Terran R will feature a reusable first stage, like SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Jade Chung-Lee, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
However, a key workhorse for providing vertical profiles of the atmosphere is the weather balloon.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Saucepans are true kitchen workhorses, ready to get to work for your morning oatmeal, instant noodles, steamed rice, even just heating up that jar of grocery store marinara.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2025
That shift was not a huge surprise; Relativity Space had stressed that the Terran 1 was a pathfinder for the more powerful Terran R.
The Terran R will feature a reusable first stage, like SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
Noun
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Ride Giannis Into the Paint—and the Pacers Into the Ground With no Lillard for now, the Bucks’ offensive warhorse is back to full-time duty.—
Brian Sampson,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The National Symphony Orchestra is planning warhorses by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich and world premieres by Carlos Simon, the Kennedy Center’s composer in residence; Valerie Coleman; and others.—
Javier C. Hernández,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Engels wrote about the emergence of this group of laborers in his 1845 book, The Condition of the Working Class in England.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025
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Some came as agricultural, mining or railway laborers; others served in the British administration or in the Brigade of Gorkhas, an organization in the British Army made up of people from Nepal.—
Emily Fishbein, Hpan Ja Brang,
The Dial,
17 Apr. 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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This felt like a Miami Heat season looking for a way to end, to be over, to be put out of its misery like a crippled racehorse humanely put down.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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Each is a two-hour, full-service affair complete with dedicated waitstaff and a champagne service that flows faster than a racehorse at the starting gate.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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As the costs of the trade war mount in both countries – expected to increase inflation in the U.S. and unemployment in China – the outcome will likely depend on which leader has the greater tolerance for the political costs of decoupling.—
Ann Scott Tyson,
Christian Science Monitor,
15 Apr. 2025
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The episode is interspersed with clips of a home game against the Blue Jays in late June, in which the Red Sox mount a late comeback capped by Duran’s walk-off single.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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At the same time that Bass is proposing cuts to the Equity Bureau, her budget calls for an overall increase in Fire Department workers.—
Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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With the right training, young workers can balance communities’ need to rebuild quickly and affordably with the need to rebuild safely.—
Jim Pauley,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 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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More than 1 million trotters will participate in those races.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
26 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 May. 2025.
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