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The research also finds that people are turning to AI to help speed up drudge work at home, such as dealing with government paperwork, building household budgets or helping with home repairs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Ultimately, this revolution may just reduce drudge work and the number of billable hours spent on relatively simple tasks, freeing people to focus more on lawyering.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

Apart from drudge paperwork, Peter’s job is to answer a phone that “never rings” — except it does, and it’s Rose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

In his line of work, the requirements of the season can at times seem like a drudge.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

I sat silent, recalling what a drudge she had been until Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

The 40-year-old pop star and her attorney Mathew Rosengart have taken legal action against her father Jamie and sister Jamie Lynn as the court battle regarding her 13-year conservatorship drudges on.

From Fox News ● Jan. 19, 2022

To meet kind intentions with the suggestion that your wife’s friends become drudges because you choose not to handle the simple tasks of everyday life both insults them and reveals a great deal about you.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021

They’re not the defense-first drudges they became under coach Darryl Sutter, but they’ve also learned that having freedom to be creative offensively and actually scoring aren’t connected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2018

Great chimneys sprouted from the stadium floor and the once carefree yokels were transformed into drudges.

From Time ● Jul. 28, 2012

Despite the heavy silver cuffs and high, painful-looking bun that mark all of Blackcliff’s drudges, nothing about her says slave.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

As I had drudged on with Cathy, I thought back to the infamous Nigerian prince scam, the great phishing attempt that seemingly defined the early internet.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

Literally, as a snowstorm of historic proponents hit the Big Apple, and our intrepid Midge drudged forward resolutely and inappropriately dressed.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023

Taillon also drudged through his previous start, allowing six runs over 5 2/3 innings against Houston in a game New York came back to win 7-6.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

When Maryland guard Taylor Mikesell was asked Monday how good it felt to break out of a month-long shooting lull against Indiana, the sophomore drudged up just a few words about her performance.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2020

While de Vries was still knee-deep in the study of plant hybrids in the spring of 1900, a friend sent him a copy of an old paper drudged up from the friend’s library.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

It is drudging up generations of visceral trauma, especially in Pittsburgh – the city scarred by the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023

Those efforts all have something in common: They use software to take on drudging tasks like transcribing and initial data-gathering so that journalists have more time to do more intensive reporting.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2023

Hart described how this "tired gimmick" of drudging up a victim's drug history was also used in the deaths Trayvon Martin, Terence Crutcher, Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald and many others.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2022

The defense tried to discredit Constand and the other women, attacking their credibility and drudging up their past misbehaviors.

From The Verge ● Apr. 26, 2018

It was true that Jared for the present was still at Raleigh, drudging away at a very small salary.

From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson