grind
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Researchers also found broken grain grinding stones and burnt seeds covering the burial.
From Science Daily
“The most perverse scenario … is a further equities grind sideways to slightly down, but no crash/no shocks,” he said.
From MarketWatch
The daily grind is harder for some than others.
From MarketWatch
Gathering and parsing it can require thousands of analysts grinding for hours over communications intercepts, photographs and radar images as they try to divine the locations of missile launchers, tunnels and other targets.
“A slow grind higher in oil prices behaves like a tax that the economy absorbs, one that seeps into input costs, transportation, and eventually wages,” he said.
From Barron's
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