menial
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While robots may be able to take over menial tasks, humans will be needed to supervise and repair complex fleets.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
Instead, his days are filled with menial tasks or guard duty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Luke has been waiting 65 years, doing menial work as a bartender in the Junction, hoping to be reunited with his love.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025
Edgerton recalls a moment cut from the film, in which the boss orders all the other workers to settle back into their menial tasks.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025
Toward the end of 1966 my father was temporarily laid off his job as a menial labourer for a white firm in Germiston, a white city an hour’s bus ride southeast of Johannesburg.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Vocabulary lists containing menial
The Handmaid's Tale
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