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Recent Examples of heavy lifting
There has been no sign of even an attempt at the legislative heavy lifting required to make the Trump Card a reality.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heavy lifting
Noun
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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
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Its advertising promised an end to drudgery through food engineering.—
John Seabrook
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
Noun
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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.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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These included headaches, hand pain, forearm pain, nerve damage in his left elbow, fatigue, decreased stamina and erectile dysfunction, according to the lawsuit.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2025
Noun
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The first film saw Pattinson's Dark Knight tangoing with the Riddler (Paul Dano), a serial killer plaguing Gotham City.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 June 2025
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That’s why some people call the disease—which will affect more than 313,000 men in the U.S. in 2025—a silent killer.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
27 June 2025
Noun
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As the seasons changed, her mother would remind her when panthers and bears were roaming around.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
28 June 2025
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An escaped prisoner requires guards to risk their lives as well among gators, pythons and bears.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025
Noun
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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.—
Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
28 June 2025
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In an effort to alleviate some of those concerns, Senate GOP leaders included a new $25 billion fund to support rural hospitals.—
Elena Moore,
NPR,
28 June 2025
Noun
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The letter said that the Senate’s version of the bill would cut more than $4 billion in Medicaid funding, with a loss of more than 16,000 jobs.—
Miriam Waldvogel,
The Hill,
29 June 2025
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Each job brought a new environment with different obstacles and new problems to solve.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
29 June 2025
Noun
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Weeknight dinners and Sunday meal prep don't have to be a chore with these deals on a time-saving air fryer, a compact juicer, and more.—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
4 July 2025
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Josh Jung’s future Watching Jung this season has been a chore.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 July 2025
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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.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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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.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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“Heavy lifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heavy%20lifting. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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