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
So instead, I applied 3% hydrogen peroxide, then scrubbed with a nylon brush like Cinderella drudging for her evil relatives.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022
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
Once or twice a passionate impulse had seized her to go and seek help from those under whom her father had lately served in his drudging clerkship.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar