He hated the drudgery of his job.
in the “good old days” household servants led lives filled with much drudgery and little pleasure
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Meteorologists are now freed from computational drudgery to focus on what humans do best: interpreting model outputs, applying local knowledge, and communicating weather impacts to decision-makers.—Renny Vandewege, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025 It's meant to be a place of administrative drudgery with zero action, and yet, led by the affectionately abrasive Jackson Lamb (Oldman), Slough House and its slow horses somehow get involved in some of the most important cases of the moment.—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 14 June 2025 Its advertising promised an end to drudgery through food engineering.—John Seabrook
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025 He and Carl are joined by Rose (Leah Byrne), a junior officer looking to do something that matters instead of the drudgery of paperwork.—Nina Metz Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 1 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for drudgery
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