workhorse

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Recent Examples of workhorse When healthy, Lugo has been a workhorse on the mound. 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 See All Example Sentences for workhorse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
Noun
  • Cisco Systems The old tech warhorse, still crucial to many tech systems, will report Wednesday after the bell.
    Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 13 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • One was a White farmer, while the others were Black laborers or security workers, police said.
    / CBS News, CBS News, 23 May 2025
  • Consider android laborers harvesting crops at night while humans engage in creative endeavors by day.
    Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • There are dual noise-canceling microphones and a screw mount on the bottom for attaching it to a tripod too.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 23 May 2025
  • For outdoorsy types, the AWD-only Woodland model gets a slightly more aggressive front end design, all-terrain tires, roof rails with crossbars for cargo, and a rear activity mount for additional carrying capacity.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Tia Carrere, who voiced Nani in the original, appears in the new film as the social worker Mrs. Kekoa.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • To do so, the company raised prices by double-digit percentages for eight straight quarters, passing costs—and then some—directly to consumers and laying off hundreds of workers.
    Lindsay Owens, Time, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.
    Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 4 Jun. 2025.

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