as in laboring
to devote serious and sustained effort
slaving over a hot stove
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Recent Examples of slaving
Po’s journey begins while slaving away at his boring noodle job on the day the Dragon Warrior is to be chosen.
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Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Nov. 2025
Maybe entrepreneurship to you means slaving away behind a laptop, answering to clients, suppliers and team members.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
After two years away on loan while Leeds were slaving away in the second tier, the winger has returned to find his old No 11 shirt in Brenden Aaronson’s possession.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Defined by exhaustion from slaving away at the ironing board while confronting the latest family crisis, Angela is quite capable of whipping up baloney sandwiches with mayonnaise for all and functions as a wise-cracking, big-hearted den mother.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Nov. 2025
Maybe entrepreneurship to you means slaving away behind a laptop, answering to clients, suppliers and team members.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
After two years away on loan while Leeds were slaving away in the second tier, the winger has returned to find his old No 11 shirt in Brenden Aaronson’s possession.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Defined by exhaustion from slaving away at the ironing board while confronting the latest family crisis, Angela is quite capable of whipping up baloney sandwiches with mayonnaise for all and functions as a wise-cracking, big-hearted den mother.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaving
Verb
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Smith allowed one hit in the laboring 99-pitch outing.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Alongside the currently missing McDaniels and Edwards, Naz Reid is clearly laboring.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2026
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Dave Walton, a corn, soybean, and hay farmer in Iowa and vice president of the American Soybean Association, said in March that some of his neighbors didn’t have cash on hand last fall to buy fertilizer and were struggling to budget for fertilizer due to high prices.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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But even a young woman struggling with the patriarchal conundrum of cool-girl syndrome (to be independent and accepted) might reveal more of a snappish turn of mind than Grace does.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2026
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Rwanda is striving to ensure food security amid the latest global pressures on farm inputs like fertilizer, whose prices have been rising since the Iran war began.—
Evelyne Musambi,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Rwanda is striving to ensure food security amid the latest global pressures on farm inputs like fertilizer, whose prices have been rising since the Iran war began.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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After graduating, Jude began working as an assistant on movies and also in advertising.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Both played a key role in bringing the two sides together, were present at varying times throughout the 21-hours of inconclusive talks and have been working intensely to move the process forward.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Slaving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaving. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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