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menial

[mee-nee-uhl, meen-yuhl] / ˈmi ni əl, ˈmin yəl /


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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

In the mid-2000s, Graham Walker and his brother began running Fibrebond, after doing menial jobs and later taking on more senior roles at the company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 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

The highly-publicised Neo from tech firm 1X, slated to launch in 2026, can do menial chores like emptying the dishwasher, folding clothes and fetching you items.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 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




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