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Recent Examples of heavy lifting
Like an early Yorgos Lanthimos, the strangeness of the premise does a lot of heavy lifting, but the performers literally bring character to what might easily have been a one-note movie.
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
But Sunday provided an example of how Payton is too rigid, making Nix do too much heavy lifting.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
That second factor had to do with all the work, the heavy lifting, MLS has done to date, to build a spaceport from the ground up.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Strong router settings, proper encryption and a solid password do most of the heavy lifting.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
But Sunday provided an example of how Payton is too rigid, making Nix do too much heavy lifting.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
That second factor had to do with all the work, the heavy lifting, MLS has done to date, to build a spaceport from the ground up.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Strong router settings, proper encryption and a solid password do most of the heavy lifting.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heavy lifting
Noun
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Almost everyone has accepted the idea that drudgery is par for the course at work.—
Shani Harmon,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Treating cooking like drudgery—another chore to perform—will likely not inspire them to adopt this crucial life skill, one that seems to be going by the wayside in the era of GrubHub and DoorDash.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In a recent study by Climate Rights International, workers spoke of experiencing excessive sweating, headaches, fever, nausea, heat palpitations, dehydration and temporary vision loss.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Sep. 2025
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Soldiers reported headaches and nausea, leading Congress to cut funding in 2022.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The killing ignited a social media firestorm amid a statewide search for the killer.—
Carlie Procell,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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His alleged killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, is awaiting a court date, and his motivations are unknown.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Sometimes an analyst’s downgrade will wreck an uptrend and hand the joystick over to the bears.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
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New Mountain bounced off the COVID bear-market bottom much like other BDCs.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The merging of the modern and traditional is an effort to help people find God in a new way, said Reverend Jason Roberson, the head priest at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, and to mark the church’s entry into a new century.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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With the sandboxing proposal, companies could identify regulations that are obstructing their efforts, and ask for a waiver.—
Emily Wilkins,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Duncan Wanblad, chief executive of Anglo, will take the top job and Anglo Teck while Teck’s chief executive Jonathan Price, will be his deputy.—
Tim Treadgold,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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That’s when Billy Napier accepted the Florida job.—
Maddie Hartley,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Sweeping is a basic household chore that keeps dirt, dust, crumbs, hair, and more from building up on floors.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Sep. 2025
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Those mandates hit women – who frequently shoulder a disproportionate share of the responsibility for kids and chores –particularly hard, especially at a time when parents are feeling pressured to commit more hours to their children.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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Women in their 50s are well into their careers, leaning in and even expanding professionally as their kids have aged and need less in the daily grind.—
Linsey Hughes,
Flow Space,
10 Sep. 2025
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Their 2010 appearance came by virtue of hosting, not through the grind of the qualifiers.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Heavy lifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heavy%20lifting. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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