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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

It’s a Cinderella story, minus everything but the drudge and the stepmother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

Miss Preston was convinced that the best way to correct minor misconduct was a little drudgery, and housework was the pinnacle of drudge.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

Even as the state of the economy began to improve, companies found they couldn’t shake their reliance on free labour; it was too easy to skimp by relying on a steady stream of unpaid drudges.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2018

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

But for one glorious summer in 1973, interns and drudges helped change America — as the cogs turning the wheel that would ultimately result in Richard Nixon’s resignation.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2017

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

As the bout drudged on, both fighters appeared to start getting gassed.

From Fox News ● Oct. 10, 2021

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

The “waister” had to do everything on board that was menial—swabbing, sweeping, and drudging generally.

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