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as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily
flooded residents who were forced to trudge through waist-deep water
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as in to stumble
to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
no expert on taxes, I spent the whole weekend trudging through government forms
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Recent Examples of trudge
On campus, which remains closed to the public, photos and videos posted by pro-Israel students showed dozens of their peers trudging through the rain, alongside the lawns that were once the site of the Columbia encampments.
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Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Instead, Cook earned her accolades trudging through the obstacles of the Jim Crow era.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In the last 26 years, Larson has trudged to that luggage area thousands of times.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2025
The walk over here had taken me three hours, trudging uphill on a gravel road.
—Tim Brinkhof, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025
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Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
Instead, Cook earned her accolades trudging through the obstacles of the Jim Crow era.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In the last 26 years, Larson has trudged to that luggage area thousands of times.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2025
The walk over here had taken me three hours, trudging uphill on a gravel road.
—Tim Brinkhof, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trudge
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Then, around 200 million years ago, Pangaea began splitting apart, a geological breakup that formed the Atlantic Ocean, and eastern North America shuffled toward its current position on the globe.—
Alexandra Witze,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Phillies can shuffle their rotation with the benefit of two upcoming off days.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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How did the world’s two largest economies stumble toward a trade war that neither truly seeks and which the rest of the world can’t afford?—
Zongyuan Zoe Liu,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2025
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Eleni wasn't the only one who stumbled across the sale.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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And in the end, the untouched bread is stomped into the ground.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Balor stomped Mysterio, seemingly signaling a forthcoming break-up of the two longtime partners.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The on-again-off-again tariff announcements have rattled investors, wiping out trillions in value from stock markets and frustrating business leaders who are struggling to make business decisions without knowing how much goods will cost in the long run.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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Carney may well struggle to hold on to power for as long as Trudeau did, given that the Liberals have fallen just short of an outright majority in Parliament; even the most successful political parties rarely win five straight contests.—
Daniel Block,
The Atlantic,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Trudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trudge. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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