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workhorses

  • plural
    of workhorse.
    workhorse
    noun
    a horse used for plowing, hauling, and other heavy labor, as distinguished from a riding horse, racehorse, etc.

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Both Jackson and Collins have reputations not as expert orators chasing the political spotlight, but as workhorses focused on getting results.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

They intend to lean heavily on their starting pitchers in an age when they have been transformed from workhorses into show ponies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Nvidia’s chips, known as GPUs, are the main workhorses of the AI computing revolution.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Where the Southern California land meets the Pacific waters, the beaches are the glamour-pusses, but it’s the ports that are the workhorses that bring in the heavyweight bucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

They are the workhorses of the biochemical world.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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