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hard-working

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adjective

  1. (of a person) industrious; diligent

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Traditional western dramas were more likely to depict vaqueros as bandits than hard-working ranch hands whose contributions were fundamental to the American West.

From Los Angeles Times

In between matches, hard-working staff are hosing down the courts to cool the sand.

From BBC

There are self-reflexive meta gags about “hard-working cartoon writers” and “reappropriating out-of-date catchphrases.”

From Los Angeles Times

He described his client as an "industrious and hard-working person who wants to make something of his life", and said he was "remorseful" for what happened.

From BBC

She has made it no secret that her drive to continue to compete at the elite level is not only for her own family but for hard-working mothers everywhere.

From BBC