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errand

noun as in task

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Instead of calling a friend, colleague or family member every time I went out for a walk or an errand, I fired up the ChatGPT app.

Early the next morning, the sun started rising, automobiles started driving, robots started running errands.

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Teasing out the plot’s tangled threads and expecting each to adhere to logic is a fool’s errand, yet what viewer will insist this type of picture have an airtight story?

However, when your destination is itinerant and camouflaged by galaxies of LED lights, finding a particular art car in the dark can be a fool’s errand.

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His job mostly involved getting coffee and running errands, but the experience was everything a celebrity seeker could ask for, he says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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