as in labored
to devote serious and sustained effort
Labor Day is the day on which we recognize those men and women who daily travail with little appreciation or compensation
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In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.—
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The Bears labored much of the rest of the evening.—
Jeff Faraudo,
Mercury News,
18 Oct. 2025
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Her sister struggled for years with substance use, leading their mother to assume custody of her sister's two children.—
Victoria Moorwood,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
26 Oct. 2025
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After an effort to create a Falls of the Ohio national park fell short in 1967, Kentucky and Indiana officials struggled to stop the falls from becoming a garbage dump.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
25 Oct. 2025
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Her dad worked for an automotive firm, while her mom worked for the local police department.—
NPR,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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The Knicks fired head coach Tom Thibodeau over the summer, replacing him with Mike Brown, who should be able to spruce up the team's offense while preserving the Thibodeau-era elements that worked.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Travailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/travailed. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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