schlep
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He’s about to schlep through a 162-game season with them: plane trips, batting practice, 1 a.m. room service steak dinners in antiseptic luxury hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
She still laughs about it now, whispering to my dad back then, half-horrified, half-amused: “BYOM? They want us to schlep raw meat to their house. Is that… something people do?”
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 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
Before we know it, though, the long schlep home will begin – via Hawaii, California and Winnipeg - and Westminster’s tilt towards the Budget will become total.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
Admittedly, I have to schlep to the rover five times a day to check e-mail.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
But why don’t the rest of us yokels get schlepped around by private jets when we’re in grave danger?
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2023
There’s even a Stone of Destiny, schlepped down from Scotland for the occasion.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
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
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
But moviegoers say there’s no easy way to keep track of what’s showing and when — and schlepping across town for a 1 p.m. weekday showing hardly justifies the $23 ticket price.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
But it’s increasingly easy to envision him stepping away sooner than later, and we wonder about his enthusiasm for schlepping from Eugene to West Lafayette and State College.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
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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