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menial

[mee-nee-uhl, meen-yuhl] / ˈmi ni əl, ˈmin yəl /


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By offloading the menial stuff to an artificial-intelligence, she says she has freed up time she wouldn’t otherwise have, time she now spends taking guitar and singing lessons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

While robots may be able to take over menial tasks, humans will be needed to supervise and repair complex fleets.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

Luke has been waiting 65 years, doing menial work as a bartender in the Junction, hoping to be reunited with his love.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

Edgerton recalls a moment cut from the film, in which the boss orders all the other workers to settle back into their menial tasks.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

People who never had known what it was to enter the gate of the Mayor’s yard unless it were to do some menial job now paraded in and out as his confidants.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston




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