TOILING Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

toiling

verb

Definition of toiling next

present participle of toil

as in laboring

to devote serious and sustained effort toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture

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Recent Examples of toiling Torn between toiling away at farmwork, his corrective swimming lessons, and learning music from a local organist — the elderly Michel (Alexandre Astier, Clichy’s former directing partner), who shows him more kindness than most — Christophe’s world gradually widens. —

Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 May 2026 When your partner is a creative person toiling away as an artist, that conversation is typically a tangled knot of hearts and minds and money and desires and needs and space and time. —

Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 Wilson’s a working musician’s musician, having spent much of his career toiling at full-time jobs while playing the saxophone and writing music on the side. —

Charles Moss, SPIN, 18 May 2026 This is, of course, nothing new to the series, and the players that don’t want to spend ages toiling away for a single car, let alone a single part, looking to simply hop on their couch and straight into a GR GT will appreciate this. —

Adam Ismail, The Drive, 14 May 2026 During the weekends, my partner and I will be out in the yard, toiling away at various landscaping and home improvement projects, and sometimes our neighbors are out doing the same. —

Judith Martin, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 Others — the dreamers and grinders, as Spencer Nusbaum described yesterday — have to take second jobs to make ends meet while toiling away in minor-league baseball. —

Chris Branch, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026 After months of toiling over the build, the supplier facility produced a version of the product, but on the back of the display, 35 grooves were installed instead of 25. —

Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026 Medieval monks toiling away at poetic meditations on the divine have their place, the authors allow, but their own arguments are meant to surpass mere abstract justifications for belief. —

Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026

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With evacuation shelters reaching capacity as more than 40,000 people were asked to leave their homes, officials laboring to prevent an explosion at a crippled chemical tank in Garden Grove reported tentative progress Sunday in ending the crisis.

— Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
Makar has played in every game this postseason, but was clearly laboring in Game 5 against the Minnesota Wild.

— Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 20 May 2026