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dirty work

noun as in unpleasant or tedious work

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Kane may be 32 but looks at his peak, a master marksman as well as the complete player, willing to drop deep to do dirty work but still always arriving at the sharp end with perfect timing when goals are required.

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Your Nov. 8 editorial asks “Will Israel Do Lebanon’s Dirty Work?,” after the IDF launched air strikes on Hezbollah targets last week.

Cybersecurity experts are warning that artificial intelligence agents, widely considered the next frontier in the generative AI revolution, could wind up getting hijacked and doing the dirty work for hackers.

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Appeared in the November 8, 2025, print edition as 'Will Israel Do Lebanon’s Dirty Work?'.

For the right price, the CIA figured, maybe the mob would do the government’s dirty work.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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