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schlep

[shlep] / ʃlɛp /


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You have to schlep around while it’s raining, snowing or just hot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

You can’t beat the price: $9 one way from Framingham and no bags to schlep except carry-ons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Yiddish, the language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews across Europe before the Holocaust, is now perhaps best known to many English speakers through words such as "schlep", "klutz" and "chutzpah".

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2025

This was true, but we had underestimated two variables: December in Chicago and our motivation to schlep boxes after a seven-hour drive in a U-haul.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024

Admittedly, I have to schlep to the rover five times a day to check e-mail.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

In April, more than 100 fund managers schlepped to Newark and boarded a chartered 737 jet with SpaceX’s logo on the tail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

I schlepped in oversized bags of flour and sugar to make cranberry-orange and pumpkin-chocolate loaves for Christmas—leaving a fine dusting of powder in the pantry.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

Lader, 40, described "grabbing babies who were being schlepped across the street, and finding parents who were hysterical that their kids weren't here."

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

There’s even a Stone of Destiny, schlepped down from Scotland for the occasion.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023

Then he was schlepped out to the hospital on an emergency helicopter ride because he was close to death … but at the hospital, there he was, sitting at a desk again, doing president stuff.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2022

Portnoy hustles for years, schlepping papers around town in a secondhand van and, on occasion, cleaning poop from one of his newspaper boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

But few families would bother schlepping to Disney World for a ride based on the Disney box office bomb “Treasure Planet.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Something I wish people knew about the fashion and styling industry is that 75% is hard work and schlepping, you’re carrying things all day, every day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

In other words, employees who may give up a good chunk of their pay to work from home might actually be getting paid more than those who are schlepping to the office.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025

The days of endlessly schlepping back and forth to church were no longer my problem, and I was lazily sleeping in.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah


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