menial
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Rasheed took on menial jobs to survive like washing clothes for inmates in exchange for a bit of cash or food.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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
In the mid-2000s, Graham Walker and his brother began running Fibrebond, after doing menial jobs and later taking on more senior roles at the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
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
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
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
Were there menials, I wondered, whom I should never know, never see, waiting behind kitchen doors for the gift of our breakfast?
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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The Handmaid's Tale
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