Herculean task
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It would have been a Herculean task for anybody to make sure that every single copyright material is kept out of the documents—but especially so for this DOJ.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
Residents are now engaged in the Herculean task of clearing mud from their homes, some with their bare hands.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
For USC it means adjusting to life without the focal point of its offense, a Herculean task that Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma knows all too well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
“It is a Herculean task but lots of smart people are working on it!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
The Herculean task to which with unwearied effort they now addressed themselves was that of "builders" of the Constitution; the establishers, for the ages, of the fundamental law for a free people.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
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