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as in laborer
a person who does very hard or dull work
worked like a drudge at a low-paying job that had few benefits
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as in drudgery
very hard or unpleasant work
it took hours of pure drudge to sort through the junk in the basement
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as in to labor
to devote serious and sustained effort
factory workers who must drudge all day at repetitive tasks
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Recent Examples of drudge
Rina Torchinsky, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Another recent survey, by the BCG Henderson Institute, showed that office workers spend an average of 25% of their time on administrative drudge work.
—Deborah Lovich, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 24 Mar. 2020
As ambitious Jim heads east, Ántonia is a disgraced, unmarried mother drudging on the farm for a churlish brother.
—Robert Garnett, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
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Noun
Their companies do everything from taking some of the drudge work out of accounting to helping Americans maximize their credit card rewards.
—Rina Torchinsky, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
Another recent survey, by the BCG Henderson Institute, showed that office workers spend an average of 25% of their time on administrative drudge work.
—Deborah Lovich, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Verb
While the House drudged through a partisan back-and-forth, top Republicans and Democrats in the Senate hatched a deal.
—Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 24 Mar. 2020
As ambitious Jim heads east, Ántonia is a disgraced, unmarried mother drudging on the farm for a churlish brother.
—Robert Garnett, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drudge
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Over nine months, these big cats systematically attacked workers’ camps at night, dragging victims—who included African laborers, Indian railway workers and even camp supervisors—into the darkness.Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Hopeful men lined up, waiting for construction jobs that would open when laborers inevitably died on the job.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2025
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That was misery, sorrow, drudgery, give me some other adjectives there.Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Super Cruise will relieve you of the drudgery of long-distance driving and get you there with a lot less stress.Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Excited by the ability to build without wrecking the atmosphere (as much), timber’s apostles have labored to normalize it in large-scale construction.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
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Sutton’s been laboring on a full remodel of their Kansas City, Kansas, house near The Legends since August.Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
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Seasonal hiring has implications beyond December, as many retailers convert a certain percentage of temporary workers to permanent positions.Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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See more industry resources here for musicians and other entertainment industry workers.Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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TikTok mounted a last-ditch effort at the Supreme Court on Friday meant to stop a ban of the app set to take effect within days -- but the platform's arguments may have landed with a thud.Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2025
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Protecting those at-risk people from severe effects of respiratory illness and norovirus requires a group effort, said Mohammed Raja, MD, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.John Loeppky, Verywell Health, 11 Jan. 2025
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The old heavyweights of space launch — the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and Europe’s Arianespace — struggled with delays in developing new rockets, and Western sanctions removed Russian rockets as an option.Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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The spike in egg prices comes on the heels of a slow COVID-19 pandemic recovery, as many restaurants in Southern California continue to struggle.Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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This, in some ways, underlined Watkins’ toils; scoring but more cautious, less sure of himself.Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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The on-pitch toil from Sean Dyche’s team merited such a response, but now the hard work starts in earnest for all, including TFG.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
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Reporters have long strived to not do so and mostly succeeded.George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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This parallels the experience in Ukraine, where drone makers have been striving to establish local production, increasingly been making batteries and other components themselves.David Hambling, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Drudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drudge. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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