grunt
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He said young professionals should not shy away from doing the grunt work.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
Now it belongs to a humanoid robot called Digit that was built for grunt work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
It began with a bit of honest grunt, a dispossessing of Araujo in the corner by the twin hunters, Tuur Rommens and Youssef Chermiti, and across the other side of the field they swept.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Robert Alver said that Pretti worked with him as a lab technician beginning in 2009 at the University of Minnesota, and did much of the grunt work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
Shadow spent the night half-awake, drifting in and out of sleep, listening to his new cellmate grunt and snore in the bunk below him.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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