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Recent Examples of heavy liftingThere has been no sign of even an attempt at the legislative heavy lifting required to make the Trump Card a reality.—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025 Certain variables can contribute to this, including high blood pressure, aging, and sometimes sports that require heavy lifting.—Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 7 June 2025 Dattatreya contends that the machines might relieve some of the burden of heavy lifting or extremely fast processing during busy periods—like the holidays.—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 June 2025 Organizations can use technology to help do some of the heavy lifting when conditions aren't ideal.—Asaf Darash, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavy lifting
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.
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Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
Its advertising promised an end to drudgery through food engineering.
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John Seabrook
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
The variant has similar symptoms to other strains, including fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, sore throat, congestion or a runny nose, new loss of taste or smell, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, nausea or vomiting.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
These included headaches, hand pain, forearm pain, nerve damage in his left elbow, fatigue, decreased stamina and erectile dysfunction, according to the lawsuit.
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Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2025
Kota, the zoo's youngest male orangutan, started showing signs of lethargy and continued to decline despite efforts of zoo veterinary and animal care staff to administer care, the zoo said in the release.
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Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
28 June 2025
In an effort to alleviate some of those concerns, Senate GOP leaders included a new $25 billion fund to support rural hospitals.
While other editors navigated the daily grind in a visible state of exhaustion, Wintour, with her signature bob, dark sunglasses, and famously enigmatic composure, cultivated an air of mystery and authority that few could emulate.
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Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Olsen talks about how the grind of having to earn a living, the drag of figuring out home care for young kids, has worn female writers down.
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