hustle
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Even if the choice of this outfit is that Wang is soft-launching his stick-and-poke tattooing side hustle, it’s still a conscious choice.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
An army of social-media users has found a lucrative side hustle in creating promotional content for brands from fake breakups and other quotidian fodder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Faced with economic uncertainty, about 43% of Gen Z-ers now have a side hustle, according to a 2026 LendingTree survey.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
For a few years around the turn of the millennium, Ronald McDonald had an unusually sophisticated side hustle.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
The building was square and rather plain-looking, though once inside, the three orphans were intimidated by the hustle and bustle of the people as they raced around the large, echoey room.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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Gen Z-ers are more likely than older Americans to start businesses through their own passion projects or side hustles, rather than acquiring them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Here, Madonna takes the listener through a pivotal moment in her early career, as she dances, performs and hustles at the famous New York club where she eventually broke through.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Portnoy hustles for years, schlepping papers around town in a secondhand van and, on occasion, cleaning poop from one of his newspaper boxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
For some, that includes cutting back on other necessities such as food, budgeting strictly to afford half a tank of gas a week and rethinking side hustles such as food delivery service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Fulvia Cardew hustles over and makes a sound of frustration when she sees my clean face.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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ITHACA, N.Y.—On a drizzly Thursday, Cornell University students wandered into consulting recruitment sessions, hustled up the slopes to midterms and listened to a Pulitzer-winning fiction writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
While healing from their losses, they hustled, working as caregivers, nannies, Uber drivers and house cleaners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
What we learn from the ad is that Jenner is always in motion, hustled through her home by someone who works for her, passing other people who work for her.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
From 55-5 overnight in their chase of 254, New Zealand's disappointing week was complete when they were hustled out for 138, thanks chiefly to Gus Atkinson's 5-30.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Jojo grabbed the bucket from Stella, ran to pump fresh water, and hustled it right back in.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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It is hustling for business and this week bet big with the Texas Stock Exchange.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
"They have made her look like she is a desperate young girl hustling for people's money," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
“You should have seen me, I was hustling and hustling for them,” she recounts about finding her famous client a home to purchase.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
I can attest to that after spending several hours with her on Tuesday, hustling to keep up as she taught at two schools and then hurried home to greet her private students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
Schmidt’s door opened and slammed with this girl hustling out, Angela Sammick.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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