drudgery

The psychological damage from the labor camp coupled with the oppression of the Communist regime infiltrated the house, where her mother’s constant cleaning and other drudgery was a way of maintaining sanity and order.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

And to dispatch the three-time champions of Europe on their home turf, the club also had to embrace torturous drudgery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

People who ignore or undervalue prompting will remain trapped in the drudgery of manual operations, where data points must be located and assembled.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026

It's a reminder of the human drudgery underpinning how AI systems operating in the physical world learn.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026

How could he be so cheerful in the face of such drudgery?

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

But Roth is concerned that some patients may be so eager to escape the drudgeries of dialysis that they are willing to accept a sub-par kidney.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2020

I loved these tales of going up in these famous fighters and bombers on test runs, of the camaraderie on base, even the drudgeries of guard duty or rushing to breakfast in the mess.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2020

Desks of some furloughed employees, whose job can include such drudgeries as helping their bosses work the copy machine, sit empty in the West Wing.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2019

“Welfare” evokes poverty as a trial of rote drudgeries.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2019

We tend to count the diseases conquered, the planets explored, the drudgeries banished, and to assert that the greater good is served by seeing things our way.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro