as in labor
very hard or unpleasant work
the donkeywork involved in setting up one's own start-up software firm
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Factories are operating at 81 percent of capacity, compared with prewar levels of less than 60 percent, and 73 percent of firms report labor shortages.—
Alexandra Prokopenko,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Jan. 2025 -
Optimizing Complex Workforce Scheduling Workforce challenges, including labor shortages and poor resource allocation, have become the new normal, with several industries particularly impacted, including manufacturing, retail, leisure and finance.—
Alan Baratz,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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The move is the first step in the broader multiyear effort to convert the state’s turnpike system to a cashless toll road that is both safer and more efficient.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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The court’s decision foiled Knox’s last-ditch effort to completely clear herself of criminal wrongdoing in the case of Kercher’s slaying.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2025
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This reflects the legacy of slavery, discrimination and uneven economic development over generations.—
Tom Kemeny,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
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The site, which documents the legacy of slavery in America, uses first-person narratives, art, educational exhibits, and interactive media to tell a comprehensive story.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
15 Jan. 2025
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The Gaza conflict did raise the Palestinian issue — the long struggle for independence after decades of Israeli occupation and repression — on the world stage.—
Tracy Wilkinson,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Sly Stone's struggles with cocaine have been well documented, even, at times, eclipsing his achievements as an artist.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Woll showing signs of fatigue This isn’t a surprise given Woll entered this season having played just 36 regular-season games in the NHL.—
James Mirtle,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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In a landscape of dating app fatigue and romance scams, the anachronistic-seeming personals section — which is thriving in Vermont — can look like the way of the dating future.—
Wendy Lu,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Foreman tried to steady himself and go after Ali but stumbled into rapid-fire combinations that spun him around like a drunken ballet dancer — punches with enough impact to throw a spray of his sweat across the ring.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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The chemical makeup of ring around the collar is different from stains on the underarms of shirts, which are caused by a combination of sweat and the aluminum found in many deodorant and antiperspirant formulas.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Jan. 2025
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Their past two games, an overtime loss at next-to-last-place Minnesota and an overtime win against Northwestern, point to the grind that awaits in league play.—
Austin Meek,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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So far as paleontologists have been able to reconstruct the ancient Earth at the time, the extinction was a protracted grind of climate and environmental change.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025
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His innie, unaware of this grief, toils in Lumon’s enigmatic Macrodata Refinement department (MDR), disillusioned with the monotony, the secrecy and the repressiveness of Lumon’s operations.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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Just Ask Xero is an AI co-pilot designed with the single purpose of reducing customer toil, or time spent on monotonous financial administration tasks.—
Jeffrey Hammond,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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