slogged; slogging
1
: to hit hard : beat
2
: to plod (one's way) perseveringly especially against difficulty
slogger
noun
1
a
: hard persistent work
… the endless enervating slog of war.—
Michael Gorra
Michael Gorra
b
: a prolonged arduous task or effort
… reform will be a hard political slog …—Malcolm S. Forbes
Malcolm S. Forbes2
: a hard dogged march or journey
Examples of slog in a Sentence
Verb
He slogged away at the paperwork all day.
She slogged through her work.
She slogged her way through her work.
We've been slogging along for hours.
He slogged through the deep snow.
They slogged their way through the snow.
Noun
It will be a long, hard slog before everything is back to normal.
It was a long slog up the mountain.
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
While the power opportunities are bright, the current earnings reports are much more dour as the oil sector slogs along with weakened activity.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Nothing, not even the slog of a miles long backcountry ski, exhausts me like chugging upward on two wheels.
—Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2025
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Verb
In cases where legacy tools would force teams to slog through, for example, 3,400 checks with 600 million errors, Vision AI’s clustering can reduce that effort to investigating just 381 groups—turning mountains into molehills and speeding debug time by at least 2x.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
While the power opportunities are bright, the current earnings reports are much more dour as the oil sector slogs along with weakened activity.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
Despite the misfires, her career hasn’t been a slog.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Nothing, not even the slog of a miles long backcountry ski, exhausts me like chugging upward on two wheels.
—Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Slog.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slog. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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