spadework

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Recent Examples of spadework But the loss at the Mercedes plants will almost surely slow down the union’s campaign and probably force it to do more spadework to secure the support of workers before seeking to hold elections at other auto plants. Jack Ewing, New York Times, 17 May 2024 In this peacemaking effort, the United States would have to do almost all the spadework. Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024 Early spadework for the new batch of projects also dates back to the City of Cleveland’s 2004 Waterfront District Plan. Steven Litt, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022 This was Biden’s third such visit to a House battleground in eight days, as the White House has married the president’s summer sales pitch for his infrastructure plans in Congress to Democrats’ political spadework ahead of the 2022 election. Eli Stokols Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021 See All Example Sentences for spadework
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spadework
Noun
  • Smaller efforts popped up in Greenland over the years, but nothing came to fruition.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Supporting the Army’s next phase The M-SHORAD Increment 4 effort is a major part of the Army’s broader modernization strategy.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • How Tielemans overcame early toils is often used as a source of encouragement by new additions who seem peripheral at first.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But to borrow Manidis’s framework, the drive to create such a tool conflates useless toil with meaningful labor.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike the confrontational drudgery of couples therapy — and aiming to avoid the confrontational finality of divorce — this approach relies on subterfuge.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • While analysts have long complained about the drudgery, the rise of AI is now sparking concerns about their job security.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Researchers highlighted the current challenges for OCTOID, including slow thermal response and potential fatigue of CLCEs, and the weight of nichrome wires limiting flexibility.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Hoka Women’s Transport Shoes This cushy shoe is designed with a rocker bottom that pushes you into your next step, putting off foot fatigue for longer.
    Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The project is a labor of love for Meyer, who grappled with his own travails acclimating back to civilian life after two deployments to Iraq.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But this climactic sequence, too, is redolent of too many other films to name, as is a final stretch where the apparent resolution to the sisters’ travails turns out to be something else.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • How the stakeholders juggled those diametrically opposed ideas—liberty and self-governance but also slavery and their horrific treatment of the Native American population—is the part of the human experience that Burns is most interested in exploring.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Spadework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spadework. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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