hardworking
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hardworking
Example Sentences
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“Our family is hardworking and we wanted to give them credit too. To us, that’s royalty.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Yet no amount of investigation is going to bring back a loving husband and a hardworking father of five children.
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026
Some readers imagine Kafka’s protagonist, Gregor Samsa, a hardworking salesman in a city that seems analogous to Kafka’s native Prague, has morphed into a cockroach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
The U.S. economy is driven by the extraordinarily resourceful, innovative, and hardworking private sector.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
Mr. Lyons was a smart, hardworking man, and Mrs. Lyons was a very good woman.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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