thankless task
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And somehow she had to crack China’s near-total dominance of the world’s rare earths—a strategically important but commercially thankless task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Being an executor is often a lonely, time-consuming and thankless task.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025
She reckons it was a thankless task - important, but frankly, a bit dull.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
On January 2, 1958, a minor official at the Rome Opera House bore the thankless task of announcing bad news to the audience: Maria Callas had left the building.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
Despereaux's brothers and sisters soon abandoned the thankless task of trying to educate him in the ways of being a mouse.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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