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as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily
flooded residents who were forced to trudge through waist-deep water
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as in to stumble
to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
no expert on taxes, I spent the whole weekend trudging through government forms
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Recent Examples of trudge
On campus, which remains closed to the public, photos and videos posted by pro-Israel students showed dozens of their peers trudging through the rain, alongside the lawns that were once the site of the Columbia encampments.
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Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Instead, Cook earned her accolades trudging through the obstacles of the Jim Crow era.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In the last 26 years, Larson has trudged to that luggage area thousands of times.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2025
The walk over here had taken me three hours, trudging uphill on a gravel road.
—Tim Brinkhof, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025
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Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Instead, Cook earned her accolades trudging through the obstacles of the Jim Crow era.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In the last 26 years, Larson has trudged to that luggage area thousands of times.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2025
The walk over here had taken me three hours, trudging uphill on a gravel road.
—Tim Brinkhof, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025
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Then, around 200 million years ago, Pangaea began splitting apart, a geological breakup that formed the Atlantic Ocean, and eastern North America shuffled toward its current position on the globe.—
Alexandra Witze,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Phillies can shuffle their rotation with the benefit of two upcoming off days.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Woman Makes 'Creepy' Find In Thrift Store By Alice Gibbs Senior Life and Trends Reporter Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member news article 0 A thrift store shopper from Scotland stumbled on something unexpected in her local store when a beautiful glass paperweight caught her eye.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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Contractors renovating a historic home in Belgium stumbled upon the entrance to a secret tunnel identified by archaeologists as an escape route from World War I.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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Malone was more willing to lean on the trio of second-year players this year, but the Nuggets have gotten stomped in their minutes without three-time MVP Nikola Jokić.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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John and Carlile get loud here, stomping and slamming around for a tight little radio-length banger. 75.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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And their struggling offense is becoming a major concern.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
18 Apr. 2025
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Behind her glamorous exterior, the real Dorothy was a closeted lesbian who struggled with substance abuse and was mistreated by the men within Hollywood’s studio system before ultimately committing suicide.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Trudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trudge. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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