menial

Student workers are shouldering bigger responsibilities, such as leading projects, as AI takes over menial tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Elliot runs around LA doing Erika’s menial tasks until he drops everything at her beck and call.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

Sometimes he would give her menial tasks to do: answer the phone, show someone to a meeting room, or announce a guest.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

Toward the end of 1966 my father was temporarily laid off his job as a menial labourer for a white firm in Germiston, a white city an hour’s bus ride southeast of Johannesburg.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

If Snyder’s idea of running a franchise was to send menials scurrying for more whiskey ice, the other owners were happy to accept the free if sloppy proceeds.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2020

If our children become accustomed to bossing around their mechanical menials without so much as a please or a thank you, will they turn into adults we can’t stand?

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018

“It would be menials who would win this war,” Juliet tells herself just before she’s plucked from the rank-and-file MI5 office staff stationed in the old Wormwood Scrubs prison at the beginning of the war.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2018

If schools such as Syracuse and Tennessee are having trouble scraping off the mud, it’s not just because they’ve been dirtied by a few menials.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2015

She belonged to a generation that treated policemen as menials, whatever their rank.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan