Thesaurus / toil
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The reward for all that toil is something part liquid, part solid that has zero electrical resistance at room temperature—making it a superconductor.
TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM, AND 5 MORE REMARKABLE METALSSHI EN KIMAUGUST 2, 2022POPULAR-SCIENCEFor me, at least, suffering on the trail means that the pain and toil tend to crowd out space for convenience.
WHAT DID I LEARN FROM THE SWAMPY MUCK OF THE FLORIDA TRAIL? THAT I’M A KINK HIKER.PATTY HODAPPFEBRUARY 27, 2022OUTSIDE ONLINEThe Disc Embedding Theorem rewrites a proof completed in 1981 by Michael Freedman — about an infinite network of discs — after years of solitary toil on the California coast.
NEW MATH BOOK RESCUES LANDMARK TOPOLOGY PROOFKEVIN HARTNETTSEPTEMBER 9, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINEThe best applications are often those made at the last minute, because applicants do not overthink their responses and toil over details they think need to be shoved into a question.
YOU CAN’T HACK YOUR YC APPLICATION, BUT HERE’S WHAT TO AVOIDRAM IYERAUGUST 26, 2021TECHCRUNCHYes, progress is being made, but it must be faster if the current toils of agency execs are anything to go by.
‘MY MENTAL ABILITIES ARE IMPAIRED BY WORK’: DISPARITY BETWEEN BOSSES AND STAFFERS ON MENTAL WELLNESS INTENSIFYSEB JOSEPHJUNE 1, 2021DIGIDAYHe was rejoicing in the upheaval that permitted debts to be paid with a bludgeon and money to be made without toil.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYNot too big for the fiery old heart that trouble and toil and hunger and loneliness had never quenched.
A LOST HEROELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD AND HERBERT D. WARDHe was now evidently exhausted by toil, and dispirited by disappointment.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThus it lightens the toil of the weary laborer plodding along the highway of life.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.The comfortable yet humble apartments of the engraver were over the shop where he plied his daily toil.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTWORDS RELATED TO TOIL
- applied
- applied oneself
- brought into play
- brought to bore
- dug
- employed
- endeavored
- exercised
- expended
- gave all onewas got
- gave best shot
- labored
- made effort
- pegged away
- plied
- plugged
- poured it on
- pushed
- put forth
- put out
- strained
- strove
- struggled
- sweated it
- threw
- toiled
- tried hard
- used
- utilized
- wielded
- worked
- applies
- applies oneself
- brings into play
- brings to bears
- digs
- employs
- endeavors
- exercises
- expends
- gives all oneis gets
- gives best shot
- labors
- makes effort
- pegs away
- plies
- plugs
- pours it on
- pushes
- puts forth
- puts out
- strains
- strives
- struggles
- sweats it
- throws
- toils
- tries hard
- uses
- utilizes
- wields
- works
- blunder
- bobble
- cast about
- come apart at the seams
- drop the ball
- fall down
- flop
- flummox
- foul up
- fumble
- go at backwards
- go to pieces
- grope
- labor
- lurch
- make a mess of
- miss one's cue
- muddle
- plunge
- pratfall
- screw up
- slip up
- snafu
- strive
- stub one's toe
- stumble
- thrash
- toil
- toss
- travail
- trip up
- tumble
- wallow
- work at
- blundered
- bobbled
- came apart at the seams
- cast about
- dropped the ball
- fell down
- flopped
- flummoxed
- foul up
- fumbled
- groped
- labored
- lurched
- made a mess of
- missed one's cue
- muddled
- plunged
- pratfalled
- screwed up
- slipped up
- snafued
- strove
- stub one's toe
- stumbled
- thrashed
- toiled
- tossed
- travailed
- tripped up
- tumbled
- wallowed
- went at backwards
- went to pieces
- worked at
- Herculean task
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- asperity
- austerity
- calamity
- case
- catastrophe
- curse
- danger
- destitution
- difficulty
- disaster
- discomfort
- distress
- drudgery
- fatigue
- grief
- grievance
- hard knocks
- hazard
- injury
- labor
- mischance
- misery
- misfortune
- need
- oppression
- peril
- persecution
- privation
- rainy day
- rigor
- rotten luck
- sorrow
- suffering
- toil
- torment
- tough break
- tough luck
- travail
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- uphill battle
- vicissitude
- want
- worry
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