mineworker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mineworker
Example Sentences
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The country registered 49 mineworker deaths in 2022, its safest year on record.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2023
Former mineworker Stephen O'Reilly was among their victims, lost more than £100,000, and now has to work in a bookmakers to pay his bills.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2022
“We are vaccinated, and we got punished for no reason,” said Ty Bays, a mineworker and rancher from Silver City, whose son was also exhibiting a steer.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021
Strike leader Gaddafi Mdoda, a mineworker at Anglo American Platinum, or Amplats, said he was one of the workers who received emails or SMS messages telling them they had been dismissed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012
Her father, a mineworker, had died when she was an infant, and her mother when she was twelve.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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