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errand

[er-uhnd] / ˈɛr ənd /


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She had met Lewis after performing her comedy on a talk show, and he gave her a role in “The Errand Boy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2022

Tourgée was not uncritical of Reconstruction — he called his best-selling novel based on his time in the South “A Fool’s Errand, by One of the Fools.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2019

“We have in great part, forgotten our Errand in this Wilderness,” thundered Increase Mather, president of Harvard.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Busque founded TaskRabbit, originally called Run My Errand, in 2008.

From The Verge • Sep. 28, 2017

Prince returned, his Errand with John complete; he said the Boy slept & was like to live.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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