errand
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Tourgée was not uncritical of Reconstruction — he called his best-selling novel based on his time in the South “A Fool’s Errand, by One of the Fools.”
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2019
“We have in great part, forgotten our Errand in this Wilderness,” thundered Increase Mather, president of Harvard.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Busque founded TaskRabbit, originally called Run My Errand, in 2008.
From The Verge • Sep. 28, 2017
Perhaps his greatest music scene of all came in 1961's "The Errand Boy."
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2017
Prince returned, his Errand with John complete; he said the Boy slept & was like to live.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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