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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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Fighting wildfires has long been a collective effort, with firefighting resources shared among states and even countries.—
Sarah Cutler
June 28,
Idaho Statesman,
28 June 2025
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Epperson graduated from Berea High School and Ohio University and had jobs at WEWS and WUAB-TV around a 1966-69 tour with the U.S. Army.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
29 June 2025
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In the first episode of the series, it is revealed that 10 years ago, Gi-hun was laid off from an assembly job at Dragon Motor, a car manufacturing plant.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
29 June 2025
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While a thorough cleaning of the toilet is likely included in your weekly cleaning chores, adding this fixture to your mid-week cleaning is an excellent practice to get into for a cleaner, safer surface throughout the week.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
22 June 2025
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The teen points out that his parents never apologized for being hard on him or for yelling, and that the double standards extended to chores, gifts and even curfews.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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The same is true for the NCAA insisting that students don’t qualify as employees of the colleges, despite the full-time daily grind of most players; colleges thereby save the vast expense of entering into an actual commercial relationship with their work force.—
Guy Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
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But, in Dick’s opinion, Charlie grew tired of baseball’s daily grind.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
22 June 2025
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“Heavy lifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heavy%20lifting. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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