grunt work

Example Sentences

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Tech workers’ new obsession is watching bots do their grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

He said young professionals should not shy away from doing the grunt work.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

"Roseanne" peeled back the veneer around the grunt work of parenting and allowed ongoing problems in the family to stay messy and unresolved.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2024

The rest is more teamwork — and grunt work.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

A good letter could get you a position in the better cohorts, sometimes even special jobs like legion messenger, which made you exempt from the grunt work like digging ditches or conjugating Latin verbs.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan