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chore

[chawr, chohr] / tʃɔr, tʃoʊr /


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On paper, it makes sense: Self-care feels like such a chore, why not make it fun?

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

Nor does Palantir need to sell chore coats and tennis skirts to meet its bottom line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

It can be a tedious but illuminating chore that will help you become more aware of where your money is going.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Not only can cooking in hot weather feel like a chore, but many of us find ourselves feeling less hungry altogether.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

This feat requires what the early-twentieth-century American writer Sinclair Lewis called a “willingness to sift the sanctified lies,” a chore that is hard enough when the “lie” is trivial.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

What Tom Nancy hasn’t accounted for are the great trials of life as a human child: homework, chores, no dessert after dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

While almost as many women work as men, they spend nearly an hour longer each day doing unpaid work such as chores or caring responsibilities, the Office for National Statistics says.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

None of the chores that Meta boasts about are beyond the capabilities of most people living in today’s digital world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Still, there’s clearly a lot of resentment among some Christian conservative women about husbands who don’t do chores.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Certain chores on the Ranch—like figuring out gardening-supplement-to-soil ratio and the animal-feed amounts—require math to do them right.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy


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