laboring

present participle of labor

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of laboring With The Fulfillment, the sub-context is how clout culture is a currency, how attention itself has become a currency, just like our laboring bodies are. Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025 While such a scenario sounds potentially maudlin and manipulative, Lucero — who wrote the film from a personal place — never allows that to happen by making the characters complex and flawed, and laboring under real-life issues. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025 Chiefs players spent training camp laboring at hot, humid Missouri Western State University. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025 During that season Clark was laboring to teach all his defensive linemen a new technique to use, and players would have to film themselves working on it, and send it into the coaches. Omar Kelly august 23, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2025 Wall Street economists are fixated on identifying tariff effects, yet stocks either celebrated or shrugged off three warm and sticky inflation readings this week, laboring to hold near record highs. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025 Its investments have focused on task-specific robotics like mobile carts, pick-and-place arms, and automated sorters, with a robot fleet one-million strong laboring in its warehouses as of June. Drew Bernstein, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 But, as archaeologist Sean Winter writes, also like in the US, the reality involves a lot of people coerced into laboring for the benefit of the most powerful. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Aug. 2025 The Mets’ 3-1 Opening Day loss to the Houston Astros at Daikin Park featured a baserunning blunder, a botched double play and a starting pitcher who was laboring by the fourth inning and was removed with two outs in the fifth. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for laboring
Verb
  • Maybe new additions will boost a struggling position group.
    Antonio Morales, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The ever-paranoid Ally believes all of these headscratchers are part of a Trumpian conspiracy that's out to get her, but audiences were left struggling to connect the dots.
    James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is especially true for the young Latine children and families who are striving to learn the local language and customs of a country that’s already waging war against them.
    Priscilla Blossom, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Utah’s state government posted a message on its website this week that officials are monitoring events in Washington connected with national park funding and are striving to protect the national parks in Utah.
    Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The department is working with an independent monitor to implement reforms and improve accountability.
    Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • To promote what executives described as modern ways of working, Elanco changed blueprint plans several times over the course of half a decade.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But organizers are also endeavoring to create more structured career pathways for PAs, who do not have many clear options for career advancement.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Also, with most modern vehicles sharing platforms and automakers endeavoring to reduce costs by utilizing the same parts across various model lines and for extended periods, Drury said parts availability should not be a problem.
    Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For instance, said Guo, the falling birth rate means Japan has a shrinking workforce, with fewer young people available to fill the gaps left by aging workers – who in turn are forced to keep toiling instead of retiring.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like your typical research facility—scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the background.
    Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025

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