chores
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When Carla Hoskins asks her 15 and 18-year-old sons to revise or do chores at their Hertfordshire home, she says she is sometimes met with: "You're triggering me!"
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Set it up all at once — the prenuptial agreement, the estate plan, the split of expenses and the chores.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Some Airbnb hosts are threatening to quit the platform, raise their housekeeping fees or pare their rental properties down to the bare essentials rather than accept new restrictions on checkout chores.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
“I’m sorry,” he said, “what were you saying about Count Olaf? Making you do chores doesn’t sound too bad.”
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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