as in laborers
a person who does very hard or dull work
you may have to spend some time working as a grub before challenging work comes your way
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as in labors
to devote serious and sustained effort
grubbing away at the yard work before the first snow of the season
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Noun
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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 -
Black Panamanians and migrant laborers, mostly from the Caribbean, took the bulk of low-paying jobs and lived in the Canal Zone's segregated neighborhoods.—
Rolando Arrieta,
NPR,
29 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Someone left the two puppies in front of the shelter’s door while workers were on a lunch break, according to social media posts.—
Simone Jasper,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2025
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With technological advancements in AI and machine learning threatening to displace workers—or, at least, that’s a fear—these innately human competencies will set businesses apart.—
Juan Carlos Santiago,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Additionally, the jail struggles to provide adequate food, and unsanitary food distribution practices have left detainees vulnerable to malnutrition, pest infestations and other harms.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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But Moore sometimes struggles to take responsibility in the way expected of leaders.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Eggers and his go-to production designer Craig Lathrop also put a unique emphasis on building realistic worlds—their production design strives extra hard to close gaps between Eggers’s olden aesthetic and the modern audience’s perception.—
Maya Ibbitson,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2024
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The company strives to be more than just a pet product brand.—
FunnyFuzzy Contributor,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The former calls for a counterfactual view of how testing works; the latter calls for political will and policy ideas not currently in evidence.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
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The office also works with the Connecticut State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit, which investigates the cause and origin of fires and arson.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
30 Nov. 2024
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“Grubs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubs. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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