labors 1 of 2

plural of labor
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a dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work one of the labors of Hercules in classical mythology was to clean out the stables of King Augeas

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labors

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verb

present tense third-person singular of labor

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Noun
  • Strap mounts are particularly infamous for causing users headaches when trying to remove phones.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Usually, listeria causes stomachaches, headaches, diarrhea, vomiting and muscle stiffness.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Turkey, meanwhile, has continued to stand by Sharaa and his efforts to restore order.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Musk, who heads DOGE, has taken on a key role in the administration's efforts to cut government spending and reduce the federal workforce.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As for Credo’s own line, the new body products feature a proprietary sugar kelp extract that was ethically harvested in Maine by Atlantic Sea Farms, as well as mineral-rich sea water and a ferment of spirulina, seaweed and sea lettuce.
    James Manso, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
  • How to Get Zendaya’s 2025 Golden Globes Hair Even though Zendaya looked like a million dollars on the red carpet (as always), most of the products used to get her Hollywood waves are under $20.
    Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • But Moore sometimes struggles to take responsibility in the way expected of leaders.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The male shadowed her, shivering after her full-bodied exertions above sandy pits where ripples of water flowed through.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Feb. 2025
  • But the exhibition also shows that, even if only briefly, the exertions of Black people themselves brought McCabe’s vision to fruition.
    Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Few cities in America maintain a professional network of suburban theaters that specialize in splashy productions of Broadway musicals; Chicago has just such a still-thriving circuit in Aurora, Oakbrook Terrace and Lincolnshire.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Then there are productions like Severance, the Apple TV+ show, where midcentury-modern design is used as a symbol for delusion and conformity.
    Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • 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
  • The company strives to be more than just a pet product brand.
    FunnyFuzzy Contributor, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • This handheld vacuum has 69,000 five-star ratings, works on carpet, hardwood, and tile floors, and weighs less than 3 pounds.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • 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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“Labors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labors. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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