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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
Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
Even with the inevitable drudge work, morale in the special unit remains high.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
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
Finally, give the drone scouts the drudge work, such as tediously scouring a large area.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
Even with the inevitable drudge work, morale in the special unit remains high.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
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
Noun
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Brahmins, who were traditionally priests, sit at the top, followed by warriors, merchants, and laborers – each further divided into thousands of subcategories.—
Sushmita Pathak,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Mar. 2025
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The minimum wage standards required of firms receiving CHIPS funding, for example, could have been applied to all categories of workers, not just to laborers and mechanics.—
Mariana Mazzucato,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Demaree, who was a captain in the U.S. Army and saw such drudgery firsthand, cofounded Onebrief in 2019, getting some traction after convincing lower-rung officers that his product could automate updates to the vast planning process.—
David Jeans,
Forbes,
28 Jan. 2025
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Read more: The Best Mattresses on Amazon Keeping a clean house doesn’t have to be pure drudgery—not with a super lightweight stick vacuum or a Roomba vacuum-mop that does all the heavy lifting for you (which is a whopping 45% off for Prime members right now).—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
16 July 2024
Verb
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Ultimately, this post-neoliberal ideology and its adherents did not take tradeoffs seriously enough, laboring under an illusion that previous policymakers were too beholden to economic orthodoxy to make real progress for people.—
Jason Furman,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2025
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Employees who labored long hours on a dairy farm were disappointed on payday when their checks showed no overtime pay and was missing compensation for regular hours worked, Minnesota police said.—
Kate Linderman,
Kansas City Star,
5 Feb. 2025
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Related article Cabinet officials caught off guard and frustrated by Musk’s directives to federal employees A second email from OPM early Monday evening told workers they were not required to reply, which didn’t clear much up.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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Between fiscal years 2015 to 2019, agency inspectors general substantiated only 100 allegations of employee time and attendance misconduct or fraud out of a federal workforce of around 2.1 million employees (the GAO report did not include postal workers).—
Laura Doan,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
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This boycott arrives amid a national conversation about diversity initiatives, with several major companies scaling back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
28 Feb. 2025
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This transformation requires a conscious effort to rethink decision-making, leadership development and financial strategy.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Meanwhile, Courtney Eaton is still struggling to accept Lottie’s fate while playing the character’s teen counterpart in the ’90s wilderness.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2025
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And that excludes the knock on effects that might ensue The aerospace industry, and Boeing in particular, has been struggling for the past five years to shore up its fragile supply chain in the wake of the pandemic shutdown and multiple quality issues.—
Jerrold Lundquist,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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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
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Too much mainstream music now sees itself as a refuge from real-world toils.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2025
Verb
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If errors are made, they will be flagged and corrected as needed, while striving to do what's best for the American people.—
Gabrielle Emanuel,
NPR,
27 Feb. 2025
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Rogers cared deeply about the children his show touched, striving to spread kindness and make the world a better place.—
Makena Gera,
People.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Drudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drudge. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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