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Laurence Cook was a series producer for both the show and podcast and did significant investigative heavy lifting.—Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 Last year, 12 buses per tour shuttled the performers through their whirlwind schedule while 21 tractors did the literal heavy lifting of stage production.—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025 This subtle bait and switch from a national identity crisis to a personal identity crisis is imaginative and, for a time, intriguing, with Gadebois doing some very heavy lifting as the bad guy that means well but, nevertheless, behaves appallingly.—Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025 Teams around the league will be doing the heavy lifting today to get their rosters down toward the 53-man limit.—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavy lifting
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