WORKHORSES Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

workhorses

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plural of workhorse

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Noun

The two old warhorses spent six years together at Madrid and won four Champions League titles.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026
Perhaps most notably, the annual opera program will divert from the Pacific Symphony’s traditional Verdi and Puccini Italian operatic warhorses.

— Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 27 May 2026

Definition of warhorses

Noun

Meanwhile, $12 million will go to a fund supporting out-of-work entertainment industry laborers.

— Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2026
Without fiefdoms structuring the distribution of land, the division of labor, and the provision of military protection, agents of state coercion were needed to ensure that former serfs would serve as wage laborers.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of laborers

Noun

As endless suspicion mounts in multiple directions, this genre-bending true crime series explores society’s explosive obsession with true crime.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
As internal discontent mounts, Chinese leaders will look to deflect it, framing the root cause as America’s civilizational rejection of China’s rise.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of mounts

Noun

Given the firm grip of Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker, his label RCA and song pluggers at Hill and Range Music Publishers, getting Elvis into Moman's studio proved a challenge.

— Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 17 Aug. 2026
Unfortunately for Jorgensen, just about every Big Ten roster has a post player like Fielder — long, quick pluggers with a hard elbow in your ribs and a soft touch at the rim.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2026

Definition of pluggers

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In September, for example, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said OpenAI’s management needed to take responsibility for the recent agent hacks.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
With near-daily developments and revelations of more hacks and rogue AI agents, this no longer is the stuff of science fiction.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of hacks

Noun

Conrad has done an outstanding job of pulling together a team of local workers at all levels of the business.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
During the boom years of the reform era, from 1978 to the early 2000s, China was a country of productive workers.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of workers

Noun

Anker, arguably the king of phone chargers, created a compact, wireless, magnetic backup charger for your iPhone.

— Carlos Mejia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
These new chargers from Ugreen are aimed at MacBook Air and Neo owners who want a power charger with a little more power.

— Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026

Definition of chargers

Noun

But the current Sinaloa turf war—la narcopandemia, locals call it—has created new categories of victims, far from the foot soldiers and hit men targeted in previous spasms of violence.

— Kevin Sieff, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
Before the whole scene of domestic bliss is cut short, Cruz and Josie discuss their looming irrelevance as human foot soldiers in a future of wars fought by machines, finding brief solace in each other’s out-of-uniform bodies.

— Andy Andersen, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of foot soldiers

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