workhorses

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  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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workhorses

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

But who could resist these workhorses with models named the Rooster and Baby Ben?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Nvidia’s graphics processing unit chips, or GPUs, are the workhorses of AI computing, and they’re the company’s main source of sales.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

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

A young man with curly brown hair, pebbly eyes dark beneath his straw hat, drove a team of workhorses from the west.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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