grunt work

Example Sentences

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Now it belongs to a humanoid robot called Digit that was built for grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal

The topic is the biggest flex—and source of stress—in Silicon Valley, where tech pros and amateurs are competing to see how much of their grunt work they can outsource to AI without things backfiring spectacularly.

From The Wall Street Journal

Businesses may determine it’s not an effective move in the short run to keep giving new employees textbook grunt work as they slowly build their experience.

From MarketWatch

And fears about the disappearance of entry-level work notwithstanding, Salazar said junior employees entering the workforce now, who have a native grasp of AI tools, will likely outperform senior employees who insist on doing the grunt work manually.

From The Wall Street Journal

Robert Alver said that Pretti worked with him as a lab technician beginning in 2009 at the University of Minnesota, and did much of the grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal