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schlep

[shlep] / ʃlɛp /


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He’s about to schlep through a 162-game season with them: plane trips, batting practice, 1 a.m. room service steak dinners in antiseptic luxury hotels.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 2026

Yiddish, the language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews across Europe before the Holocaust, is now perhaps best known to many English speakers through words such as "schlep", "klutz" and "chutzpah".

From Barron's Oct. 26, 2025

If there’s a house by Lautner or Neutra or Frank Lloyd Wright, sometimes we’ll take a schlep just for the house, to even just see from the street.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2025

This was true, but we had underestimated two variables: December in Chicago and our motivation to schlep boxes after a seven-hour drive in a U-haul.

From Salon Dec. 5, 2024

Admittedly, I have to schlep to the rover five times a day to check e-mail.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

In April, more than 100 fund managers schlepped to Newark and boarded a chartered 737 jet with SpaceX’s logo on the tail.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

I schlepped in oversized bags of flour and sugar to make cranberry-orange and pumpkin-chocolate loaves for Christmas—leaving a fine dusting of powder in the pantry.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2026

Lader, 40, described "grabbing babies who were being schlepped across the street, and finding parents who were hysterical that their kids weren't here."

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

Since Red Stitch uses only purchased grapes, they must be schlepped to Herrera’s winemaking facilities as part of a heavily orchestrated process.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2025

But why don’t the rest of us yokels get schlepped around by private jets when we’re in grave danger?

From Slate Sep. 2, 2023

It was inconvenient, half-furnished and somehow still felt oddly cinematic, the way schlepping your lives to a new city can feel cinematic, but only with the right person.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

No blue blood wants to fake excitement about schlepping to the Pop-Tart Bowl, no offense to those sentient Pop-Tarts.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 27, 2025

But moviegoers say there’s no easy way to keep track of what’s showing and when — and schlepping across town for a 1 p.m. weekday showing hardly justifies the $23 ticket price.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2024

But it’s increasingly easy to envision him stepping away sooner than later, and we wonder about his enthusiasm for schlepping from Eugene to West Lafayette and State College.

From Seattle Times Dec. 27, 2023

The days of endlessly schlepping back and forth to church were no longer my problem, and I was lazily sleeping in.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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