drudge

Both use it to handle drudge work in their own projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Saul is an hourly wage drudge who lives alone and constantly scans for anyone who might recognize him from his days as a wanted man in the aftermath of “Breaking Bad” infamy.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

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

Anyway, yesterday and the day before they needed someone else to do all these challenging tasks while they found another drudge to replace her.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

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

As the bout drudged on, both fighters appeared to start getting gassed.

From Fox News ● Oct. 10, 2021

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

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

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

So drudging life stamps out with daily pain Our brightest, lightest fancies one by one; Oh, may we hope to see them shine again Beyond this working world, beyond the sun!

From A Century of Emblems by G. S. Cautley