lucubration

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Noun
  • 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
  • Its advertising promised an end to drudgery through food engineering.
    John Seabrook June 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Barrett earlier had ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze foreign aide funding, drawing criticism from the right.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Add a bit of human finesse, and the ideal goal is ready to go—without the heavy lifting Leaders must reframe AI business success by approaching AI as a strategic partner, not a tool.
    John Schneider, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • And none of their stars are doing any serious heavy lifting.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Despite a difficult development market and ongoing construction labor shortage, Boise developers are forging ahead to remake the city.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 26 June 2025
  • But its depiction of the site of the hotel as a liminal space of corruption and menace suggests that all tourist fantasies are based on the exploitation of others’ histories, lands, labors, and bodies.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the seasons changed, her mother would remind her when panthers and bears were roaming around.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Which is not, under any circumstances, a pittance, especially when the job is staying in a swanky resort and acting, not coal-mining.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 June 2025
  • Gender neutral names for Capricorn Bennett: Bennett is here to get the job done.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 17 June 2025
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“Lucubration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lucubration. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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