as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
the hours of drudging effort that went into straightening out the company's books
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as in laboring
to devote serious and sustained effort
factory workers who must drudge all day at repetitive tasks
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Transform boring tasks into challenges with stakes, rewards, and achievements.—
Jodie Cook, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Broberg’s heartbreaking overtime winner Some overtimes are boring, with teams methodically regrouping.—
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New York police on Monday were trying to determine why someone set a woman ablaze board a train in Brooklyn in a fatal attack drawing outrage from city and state leaders who have been laboring to make the trains safer.—
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Earlier this year the agency adopted new heat protections that apply to indoor workers, expanding safety measures for more than a million workers laboring in warehouses, kitchens, laundry rooms and other hot indoor settings.—
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Of course, going from shows to pickleball classes to after-hours jam sessions at B.B. King’s Blues Club can be tiring.—
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Sanchez added a selfie from bed, sharing how tiring her pregnancy is.—
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This means going beyond policies and quotas, striving instead for cultural norms where differences are not only accepted but celebrated.—
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Here's to making progress, staying focused, and striving for incremental improvements throughout 2025.—
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California and Stanford ventured to the opposite coast for the first time, both struggling in the Eastern time zone.—
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Ordinary Americans also work for league media arms such as the NFL Network, which last year conducted layoffs, or their partners, including regional sports networks that are struggling to keep pace.—
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The shark’s slow movement may have allowed the octopus to stay latched on, but if the mako had picked up speed, the octopus likely would have been forced off.—
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Faster hard drives will tend to make more noise than slower ones.—
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There have been many examples of that from our first edition up until today with global producers and DJs working with top headliners from Saudi, Egypt, Lebanon and rest of the Arab world.—
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Before coming to The Athletic, Weiss spent a decade working for the government, primarily as a compliance bank regulator.—
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With businesses and consumers alike weary about the safety of AI moving forward, where does this leave them?—
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The second, that it was named after a maiden who showed some weary legionnaires the way to the mountain spring.—
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“Drudging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drudging. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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