hard labor
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Plus, there was no getting around the fact that Ernesto was getting older, less desirable for hard labor.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
After the war, Faÿ was sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor, but he escaped from prison in 1951 dressed in ecclesiastical costume, with the help of—here one reaches for the phrase “incredible but true”—Toklas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
“I wanted to almost proclaim the beauty that is inherent in the really hard labor that mostly migrant workers do,” says Garcia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
Planting seedlings is hard labor, and recruiting people to do it, especially on remote, rugged mountains, is harder than it was during the Great Depression.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
They were working men, with steel and asbestos in their lungs and years’ worth of hard labor under their calluses and cracked fingernails.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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