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
These days, many would-be retirees are punching clocks in warehouses, toiling as home health aides, or serving customers in retail stores.
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Ann Larson,
Time,
11 June 2026
The 60-year-old owner of All-Pro Lawnmower Sales, Service & Recycling at 555 Santa Fe Drive in Denver spends his days toiling on small engines.
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Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
These figures are not the proprietary work of a data scientist toiling away late into the night.
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Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Though work continues to be handled outside the Trop, a workload with increasing demands with the summer months upon us, the Rays’ grounds crew takes care of a field inside without having to change clothes multiple times per day while toiling in unrelenting heat and humidity.
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Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Adam Ismail,
The Drive,
14 May 2026
Ann Larson,
Time,
11 June 2026
The 60-year-old owner of All-Pro Lawnmower Sales, Service & Recycling at 555 Santa Fe Drive in Denver spends his days toiling on small engines.
—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
These figures are not the proprietary work of a data scientist toiling away late into the night.
—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Though work continues to be handled outside the Trop, a workload with increasing demands with the summer months upon us, the Rays’ grounds crew takes care of a field inside without having to change clothes multiple times per day while toiling in unrelenting heat and humidity.
—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toiling
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In the days since posting the news, Mitchell has continued to update her followers about the aftermath and the start of the healing process, including videos of herself laboring.
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Mercurius began laboring in the third and left after Hull's second homer of the CWS and ninth of the season leading off the fifth.
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The two candidates also are offering differing solutions for the country’s struggling health system, ballooning public debt and entrenched corruption.
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The two candidates also are offering differing solutions for the country's struggling health system, ballooning public debt and entrenched corruption.
Verb
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Move from striving to stillness.
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Born in Brooklyn, NY, on April 4, 1932, Davis was a striving student who attended New York University on a full scholarship, and graduated magna cum laude.
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Davidson is more steeped in Democratic politics, including working for years as a political consultant and winning a county legislature seat in 2023.
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These startups are working with a range of different non-invasive sensor modalities, including those that measure electrical pulses (EEG), those that measure magnetic fields (MEG), and those that use light to measure changes in blood flow (fNIRS).
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“Toiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toiling. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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