errand

Without the prescribed navigation I was accustomed to in a museum, this became a fool’s errand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Attempting to adjust your gold exposure in response to external factors is most likely a fool’s errand.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026

It’s a fool’s errand at this moment to guess where any of this turns out or which party ends up ahead in the remapping effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

My husband and I burst out laughing – not at that scene, or the clerk’s impromptu theatrics, but at this injection of delight into an otherwise mundane errand.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

So she’d actually begged her mother for an errand.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

If you’ve ever been running errands, gone to start your car, and nothing happens because the battery is dead, you know how important it is to have a set of cables to jump-start your vehicle.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

This is why friendship is often a product of something else: work, school, church, children, sports, errands, waiting rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Many of you are doing it responsibly, too: The overwhelming majority are taking care of housework or laundry, while running errands was the second-most common piece of personal business being done during professional time.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

They often show him doing everyday activities such as "munchie runs" to supermarkets or shopping malls, visiting restaurants or running other errands.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

They had done very little the past two days besides watch me spin gold or run mindless errands for the miller.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff