plodder
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They’ve resorted to laying on the big body like some plodder team in a bid to break through the Kraken forecheck.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
He rose to prominence as an ambitious plodder — as someone difficult for his colleagues to attack because he never had anything remotely interesting to say.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022
In Washington he was a plodder and a plotter, eventually winning notice and repeatedly winning re-election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
For a long time, Montepulciano d’Abruzzo might have fit a few of the less-flattering synonyms of workhorse, like drudge or plodder.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2021
To the plodder, I have been chimerical, but I will shame him by becoming a plodder, by out-plodding him.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read
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