schlep
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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
The Zamels wake before dawn for the two-hour schlep to the Westside to keep them in school with their friends.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 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
“Anyway, I’m guessing you didn’t schlep all the way out here just to listen to me talk business. What are you doing here?”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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