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Recent Examples of Synonyms for donkeywork
Noun
  • Merz, who has a long-standing and unusually close relationship with the business and finance worlds, will be aware that the country faces historic labor shortages, particularly in light of an ageing native workforce.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • To obtain government assistance before bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler in 2009, the union and the companies had to agree to additional labor cost savings and massive corporate restructuring, which continued into bankruptcy.
    Jackie Charniga, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And yet, from the ACLU to the Washington Post and the New York Times, the institutional guardians of the Left made a concerted effort to cede those causes to the mosh posh of crunchy anti-war peaceniks, classical conservatives, frat bros, and ordinary Americans who make up MAGA.
    Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The period from July, 1957, to December, 1958, was designated the International Geophysical Year, a global scientific effort to understand the Earth and its environment.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Then, Trump went on to insult every man woman and child in the United States by making light of the impact of slavery on our nation’s history.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • At the end of the day, African American culture goes back to slavery and our ancestors.
    DeMarco Williams, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know The pope has faced ongoing health struggles which have sparked speculation about decisions by the Catholic Church on the upcoming Easter celebrations.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
  • At that point, Zelenskyy interjected, bringing up the struggles his country has faced over the last decade, prompting Vance and Trump to shout at the Ukrainian president.
    Molly Nagle, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Investigations into the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster revealed that key decision-makers worked on little sleep, raising concerns that fatigue impaired their judgment.
    Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In addition, heavy exercise done while experiencing a respiratory viral illness can lead to chronic fatigue and even exacerbate myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, according to a 2021 study published in the journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.
    Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The gyms are experiencing their first round of celebrity sweat, and local stores sell fresh juices and overpriced lattes.
    Shikhar Sachdev, thehustle.co, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Like Kim, each won reelection in 2024 without breaking too much of a sweat, but these GOP lawmakers in an unfavorable political environment could become major Democratic targets.
    David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Pap’s individual birthday post to himself was more focused on his grind.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Add tomatoes, lentils, stock, coconut milk, ½ tsp salt, and several grinds of black pepper.
    Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Traven Sharon stalked the center mat at Ball Arena Saturday night with two letters and a number, faded by sweat and toil — BB1 — scribbled on the outside of his left shoe.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Too much mainstream music now sees itself as a refuge from real-world toils.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Donkeywork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donkeywork. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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