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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spadework
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The Democratic nominee for mayor also gave a speech at an African Methodist church, an effort to bridge the gap with apprehensive Black voters.—
Amie Parnes,
The Hill,
1 Oct. 2025
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The improved profitability came as Beijing intensified efforts to rein in excess supply and aggressive price wars that had hurt companies' bottom line.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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The emotional toil caused by doomscrolling has been shown to cause real harm.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
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Belly’s response is meant to come off sweet, but instead is both withering and accurate, because no 10-year-old should be that familiar with the myth of Sisyphus or the curse of endless toil.—
Thomas Page,
CNN Money,
18 Sep. 2025
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The future is not about clinging to bureaucratic models but about creating conditions where people can flourish once the drudgery is gone.—
John Winsor,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Treating cooking like drudgery—another chore to perform—will likely not inspire them to adopt this crucial life skill, one that seems to be going by the wayside in the era of GrubHub and DoorDash.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
3 Sep. 2025
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There was some fatigue in our performance, but the group are always so professional and so hungry to win.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Prolonged exposure to a heat index above 80 degrees can lead to fatigue, as previously reported by USA TODAY.—
Brandi D. Addison,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Welles’s success in bringing the tragedy of Christophe as the Haitian Macbeth to the stage was not without its own travails.—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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This is a case where people who have already gotten to know these characters and their travails on a small screen (the show ran for six seasons) are happy to spend extra money to bask in their further joys, sorrows, and anxieties writ large, on a big screen.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Coven is one of the tighter narratives the series has mustered, with its true horror lying in the realities of slavery in the American South.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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While the issues roiling America today may be more nuanced than slavery, there are still stark contrasts—forces of democracy and authoritarianism that can pretty fairly be described as right and wrong.—
Miguel Sirgado,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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