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Recent Examples of workhorse
The actress has been a showbiz workhorse for decades now.
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EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
If your small office or busy home office needs a workhorse, $40 off is an enticing reason to pick up this quality all-in-one printer.
—John Mihaly, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
As a workhorse spot that does it all from cooking and entertaining to day-to-day dining—plus everything else in between—the kitchen deserves some proper attention.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2025
Free-agent signing Najee Harris gives the Chargers a durable and reliable workhorse back.
—Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
If your small office or busy home office needs a workhorse, $40 off is an enticing reason to pick up this quality all-in-one printer.
—John Mihaly, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
As a workhorse spot that does it all from cooking and entertaining to day-to-day dining—plus everything else in between—the kitchen deserves some proper attention.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2025
Free-agent signing Najee Harris gives the Chargers a durable and reliable workhorse back.
—Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for workhorse
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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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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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Vita's Ukrainian mother (my grandmother) survived as an orphan for two years under German occupation and barely evaded being carted off to Germany to work as a forced laborer.—
Sasha Vasilyuk,
Time,
8 May 2025
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But, as Levi history tells it, the wife of a local laborer came to Davis asking for pants that wouldn’t fall apart.—
Catherine Salfino,
Sourcing Journal,
8 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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Snap Decision began his career as a solid enough racehorse, running for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey on tracks in New York and Florida.—
Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2025
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There's an entire section that dictates how to depreciate a racehorse over three years (true story), but try finding a simple explanation of whether your crypto losses offset your W-2 income.—
Darren T. Case,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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The image stabilization is good enough to use it on a drone (custom mounts required).—
Scott Gilbertson,
Wired News,
12 May 2025
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The top panel features two sets of 120mm fan mounts that, due to being 20mm offset from each other, also support 140mm fans around 33mm above the motherboard’s top edge.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
1 May 2025
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The dorm rooms are lined with lockers and bunk beds, which workers decorate with colorful blankets.—
Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2025
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Local Ocean Rescue workers appeared moments later and began CPR before the San Francisco Fire Department and Fire Paramedics arrived and began administering advanced life support measures.—
Jillian Frankel,
People.com,
10 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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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 18 May. 2025.
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