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Even before the pandemic, women were doing what sociologists describe as the “second shift,” where they complete an inordinate amount of household and caregiving chores after they’ve finished their paid labor.
FOR WOMEN, REMOTE WORK IS A BLESSING AND A CURSERANI MOLLAJULY 13, 2021VOX
In a commentary, the Fox News host, who has unleashed a steady stream of innuendo-laden vaccine skepticism in recent months, raised the idea that the vaccines may be linked to an inordinate number of deaths.
TUCKER CARLSON’S WORST VACCINE SEGMENT YETAARON BLAKEMAY 6, 2021WASHINGTON POST
She’s reading four books simultaneously while watching, by her own admission, “an inordinate amount of television.”
AND IN HER SPARE TIME, STACEY ABRAMS WROTE A THRILLERKAREN HELLERMAY 6, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Each case involves alleged sex trafficking of a minor — a crime that carries inordinate scorn relative to other crimes and even relative to its potential prison sentence.
NOT GOOD FOR MATT GAETZAARON BLAKEAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST
If you have a pool, you probably spend an inordinate amount of time dreaming of this day all winter.
BEST POOL VACUUM: CLEAN UP YOUR SUMMER SWIMMING SPOT NOWPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMMARCH 11, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
What’s more, the Capitol insurrection on January 6 featured an inordinate number of veterans in the attacking mob.
THE PENTAGON IS TAKING A MAJOR STEP TO DEAL WITH ITS DIVERSITY PROBLEMSALEX WARDFEBRUARY 12, 2021VOX
But the inordinate and fortuitous gains from land are really only one example from a general class.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
She slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar.
TALES AND FANTASIESROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The companies are declared to be impoverished by the taking of inordinate numbers of apprentices.
THE INFLUENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GILDSFRANCIS AIDEN HIBBERT
And was the empty purse supposed to be especially significant of an inordinate fondness for phonograph music—or what?
MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVEELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
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