drudge
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The research also finds that people are turning to AI to help speed up drudge work at home, such as dealing with government paperwork, building household budgets or helping with home repairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Not just subjective, but a drudge at times.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
It’s a Cinderella story, minus everything but the drudge and the stepmother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
In his line of work, the requirements of the season can at times seem like a drudge.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Miss Preston was convinced that the best way to correct minor misconduct was a little drudgery, and housework was the pinnacle of drudge.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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The 40-year-old pop star and her attorney Mathew Rosengart have taken legal action against her father Jamie and sister Jamie Lynn as the court battle regarding her 13-year conservatorship drudges on.
From Fox News ● Jan. 19, 2022
To meet kind intentions with the suggestion that your wife’s friends become drudges because you choose not to handle the simple tasks of everyday life both insults them and reveals a great deal about you.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
They’re not the defense-first drudges they became under coach Darryl Sutter, but they’ve also learned that having freedom to be creative offensively and actually scoring aren’t connected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2018
Critically, we need to understand that far from being drudges, mothers are, in fact, creating the very course of our species’ future.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2015
Despite the heavy silver cuffs and high, painful-looking bun that mark all of Blackcliff’s drudges, nothing about her says slave.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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As I had drudged on with Cathy, I thought back to the infamous Nigerian prince scam, the great phishing attempt that seemingly defined the early internet.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
Literally, as a snowstorm of historic proponents hit the Big Apple, and our intrepid Midge drudged forward resolutely and inappropriately dressed.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023
Taillon also drudged through his previous start, allowing six runs over 5 2/3 innings against Houston in a game New York came back to win 7-6.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
When Maryland guard Taylor Mikesell was asked Monday how good it felt to break out of a month-long shooting lull against Indiana, the sophomore drudged up just a few words about her performance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2020
While de Vries was still knee-deep in the study of plant hybrids in the spring of 1900, a friend sent him a copy of an old paper drudged up from the friend’s library.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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But if the new lines go through for 2026, they could pit long-serving older members of the Texas delegation against younger newcomers, drudging up existing tensions in the Democratic Party over age and seniority.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025
For most people, each day has become a drudging cycle of searching for bread and water and waiting in lines.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
The defense tried to discredit Constand and the other women, attacking their credibility and drudging up their past misbehaviors.
From The Verge ● Apr. 26, 2018
It’s the same old drudging, frustrating process, no more or less revealing than it’s been in the past—but more important now than ever.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2017
“Here you profess to believe in my going into trade and drudging behind a counter.”
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by George Manville Fenn
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