manual work

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The company’s technology helps with the drafting of briefs and takes some of the manual work out of document analysis.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

Companies like his are replacing a good deal of manual work with robotic tools, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

Until now, this has often involved laborious manual work, and in many cases the search yielded molecules that were very difficult or impossible to synthesise.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

The children did not attend any official place of education, police said, and instead were doing manual work - "for the benefit of the sect's leadership" - and "being taught life skills".

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

In the beginning, I supervised a group of students who worked as window cleaners during our manual work time in the afternoon, and led them to different buildings each day.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela