menial
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Elliot runs around LA doing Erika’s menial tasks until he drops everything at her beck and call.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Rasheed took on menial jobs to survive like washing clothes for inmates in exchange for a bit of cash or food.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
By offloading the menial stuff to an artificial-intelligence, she says she has freed up time she wouldn’t otherwise have, which she now spends taking guitar and singing lessons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
By offloading the menial stuff to an artificial-intelligence, she says she has freed up time she wouldn’t otherwise have, time she now spends taking guitar and singing lessons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
Other than the menial wages sent home from the cities, families scraped by with little beyond subsistence-level farming.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
If Snyder’s idea of running a franchise was to send menials scurrying for more whiskey ice, the other owners were happy to accept the free if sloppy proceeds.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2020
If our children become accustomed to bossing around their mechanical menials without so much as a please or a thank you, will they turn into adults we can’t stand?
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
“It would be menials who would win this war,” Juliet tells herself just before she’s plucked from the rank-and-file MI5 office staff stationed in the old Wormwood Scrubs prison at the beginning of the war.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2018
If schools such as Syracuse and Tennessee are having trouble scraping off the mud, it’s not just because they’ve been dirtied by a few menials.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2015
Were there menials, I wondered, whom I should never know, never see, waiting behind kitchen doors for the gift of our breakfast?
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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