lucubration

noun

Definition of lucubrationnext
as in drudgery

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  1. drudgery
  2. effort
  3. heavy lifting
  4. labor
  5. headache
  6. bear
  7. job
Noun
  • Plastic, prefabrication and push-button convenience suggested that mass production could bring elegant, futuristic living — and freedom from drudgery — within reach of the masses.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Because amid the drudgery, Veach spent endless time one-on-one with Reid, including hours of watching video and learning the game through an entirely new lens.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of drudgery
Noun
  • The president talked up Jackson and Senate candidate Mike Collins as part of the White House effort to boost GOP enthusiasm in the upcoming elections.
    — DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Rowling has been staunchly critical of transgender rights activists, funding legal efforts to protect women’s rights and penning X/Twitter posts that are considered to be attacks by the trans community.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of effort
Noun
  • Dell’s Data Orchestration engine already does the heavy lifting there, documents, images, video, PDFs, pulling that content into AI-ready pipelines.
    — Osman Koc, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • For the moment, the Magnificent Seven companies are doing the heavy lifting in the indexes, while the average stock is struggling.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of heavy lifting
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  • Council members would also have to waive the city’s 10-day public posting requirement for labor agreements — a move requiring a two-thirds vote.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The longtime community and labor organizer has been an outspoken progressive voice in the state legislature since she was elected in 2020.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of labor
Noun
  • The biggest headache for Thune was the Save America Act, a voter ID bill that lacked a strategy to become law in the Senate.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In Meta’s case, creepy video-recording incidents and privacy-light tampering have caused severe headaches for the company.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of headache
Noun
  • And Winnie-the-Pooh continues to sit, in a thoughtful sort of way, which is what very old bears in very nice glass cases mostly do.
    — STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Now place the wax on steep hills above a river lined with log homes, tourist shops selling wooden bears and an iconic racetrack.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of bear
Noun
  • Our job, before and after AI, is building safe and useful products for human beings, and engineers are still best suited for that.
    — Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Commission’s sovereignty framework considers the extent to which investment, jobs and value creation remain within the EU and European Economic Area.
    — Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of job
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