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Recent Examples of heavy lifting
Your healthcare provider may also advise you not to perform any heavy lifting for 24 hours after the test.7
Risks
An ESR test, like any other blood test, is generally safe and does not lead to complications.
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Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 1 May 2025
Given that a grand total of zero 9-1-1 viewers believe that killing off Bobby was a good decision, these next episodes have a lot of heavy lifting to do.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 1 May 2025
Then let time and consistency do the heavy lifting.
—Shane Enete, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
From their floral cocktails to their homemade gooey chocolate chip cookies, an afternoon at Lindens feels like eating a homey meal made by Mom, only Mom doesn’t have to do any of the heavy lifting.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 7 May 2025
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Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 1 May 2025
Given that a grand total of zero 9-1-1 viewers believe that killing off Bobby was a good decision, these next episodes have a lot of heavy lifting to do.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 1 May 2025
Then let time and consistency do the heavy lifting.
—Shane Enete, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
From their floral cocktails to their homemade gooey chocolate chip cookies, an afternoon at Lindens feels like eating a homey meal made by Mom, only Mom doesn’t have to do any of the heavy lifting.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heavy lifting
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With this one invention, millions of secretaries would soon be relieved of the drudgery of constant retyping, and the business office would have a boon in productivity almost as profound as the one the typewriter itself had ushered in long before.—
Pat Butler,
Sportico.com,
16 May 2025
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But her return to the drudgery of chemotherapy several days later was a difficult comedown.—
Katherine Rosman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Once doctors reviewed the family’s travel history, treatment was quickly shifted to address concerns of histoplasmosis, which the CDC explains can cause cause flu-like symptoms including fever and chills, malaise, cough, headache, chest pain and body aches.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headaches, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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Remembering Molly Elliott, killed by Louisiana Death Row inmate Their killer is facing execution by firing squad.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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In a classic horror premise (a school dance in the ’80s, no less), a killer is picking off Shadyside High’s prom-queen candidates one by one.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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There are steps people can take to help prevent a bear encounter from becoming a bear attack.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
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Only bears in human-bear coexistence landscapes showed this nocturnal shift.—
Lesley Evans Ogden,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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The vast majority of Customer Success leaders (89%) are making scale and efficiency a primary goal of their efforts, according to a survey of research conducted by Gainsight.—
Stephen Diorio,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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While his admission may seem like a slight, cracking the list of the league’s top 10 defenders each season is a difficult task, particularly for perimeter players whose efforts aren’t as well represented by defensive metrics.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
23 May 2025
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With time, Dewan’s father eventually went back to school, got a solid state job, and worked at the post office and a hospital.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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Well that's the idea Roku had, and it's done a terrific job with its Smart 65-Inch Pro Series TV.—
Carlos Mejia,
PC Magazine,
24 May 2025
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To Update Or Stop Using Browser For instance, some couples are driven mad by the mundane routines in their relationships (like chores, errands and so on).—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Outfitting your home with furniture is admittedly more fun than thinking about cleaning it, but these vacuum deals might make chores a little more exciting.—
Rachel Trujillo,
People.com,
17 May 2025
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Many of the artists who recently enjoyed major breakthroughs triumphed in their mid-twenties after long grinds.—
Elias Leight,
Billboard,
16 May 2025
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To highlight just how many players are needed to survive the grind.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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“Heavy lifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heavy%20lifting. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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