drudging

Example Sentences

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Those efforts all have something in common: They use software to take on drudging tasks like transcribing and initial data-gathering so that journalists have more time to do more intensive reporting.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2023

Hart described how this "tired gimmick" of drudging up a victim's drug history was also used in the deaths Trayvon Martin, Terence Crutcher, Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald and many others.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2022

For much of training camp, the QB clash was a drudging one in which neither passer strung together stellar performances from one day to the next, and sometimes not even from one drill to another.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2021

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

Presently they were passed to the son, when instantly the drudging steed pricked up his ears and struck a new stride.

From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee