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as in food
substances intended to be eaten
after the game, we headed to the diner for some hearty grub
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as in laborer
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 to labor
to devote serious and sustained effort
grubbing away at the yard work before the first snow of the season
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Recent Examples of grub
Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2025
Visitors will want to save some room for ballpark grub, however, as the Oakland Athletics will relocate to Sutter Health Park for the 2025–2027 Major League Baseball seasons.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
Money-grubbing developers don’t care about residents.
—Mark Bisnow, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
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Noun
Foothills Brewing is downtown's largest and oldest brewpub and offers a full menu of pub grub.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2025
Visitors will want to save some room for ballpark grub, however, as the Oakland Athletics will relocate to Sutter Health Park for the 2025–2027 Major League Baseball seasons.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Verb
Politics McCarthy’s vow to open Biden impeachment probe puts vulnerable California Republicans in a tough spot
Sept. 12, 2023
His son Hunter, the subject of a special counsel investigation, may have shamelessly grubbed for money by trading on the family name.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
Money-grubbing developers don’t care about residents.
—Mark Bisnow, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
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Lastly, rather than meeting people at the bar, go fill up your food plate.—
Jess Cording,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Simon’s Bar & Cafe was a favorite of legislative staffers and lobbyists from 1984 until its closure in November 2023, the go-to spot for end-of-session revelry and late-night plates of Chinese food.—
Benjy Egel,
Sacramento Bee,
19 Jan. 2025
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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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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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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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The total number of American workers in December 2024 is up only 5% from February 2020, far less than the headline 12% worker growth during Biden’s presidency.—
Derek Saul,
Forbes,
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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Walgreens, Rite Aid, Bench Commission, Dunia closures Pharmacy chains are struggling, too.—
David Staats,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Jan. 2025
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With leading scorer Walter Clayton Jr. struggling to a season-low 7 points, backup Denzel Aberdeen had a season-high 16 points.—
Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2025
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This perspective recalls in some sense Aristotle’s thinking – that a slave is a tool to be used by another.—
Monti Datta,
The Conversation,
9 Jan. 2025
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Dorsey was the son of Thomas Dorsey, a former slave who escaped to Philadelphia and became a wealthy caterer.—
Daniel Cassady for ARTnews,
Robb Report,
8 Jan. 2025
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Despite them being one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference this season, New York still has some pieces to work with on the trade block.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Morgan Ortagus, nominated by Mr. Trump as a deputy special presidential envoy to the Middle East, worked as a network contributor for only two months in early 2019.—
Michael M. Grynbaum,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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So, please, get yourself a bag of bread flour and instant yeast stocked up for this pizza crust.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appétit,
9 Jan. 2025
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Most of their lunches consist of a simple sandwich—two pieces of white bread with a few slices of bologna—plus an apple.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Grub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grub. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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