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
“He must’ve paid really well for you to schlep all the way out here whenever you found something nice,” I said as we entered the marshy gloom.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
He and his wife have schlepped materials home by train, “five big valises recently from Prague.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
There’s even a Stone of Destiny, schlepped down from Scotland for the occasion.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
After a “biting incident” in early March, White House “sexy bad boy” Major Biden was schlepped off to Delaware along with his German shepherd colleague, Champ, for additional training.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2021
Maybe the best way to understand what Dudamel has meant to L.A. and what L.A. has meant to Dudamel was his unimaginable schlepping of the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
It was inconvenient, half-furnished and somehow still felt oddly cinematic, the way schlepping your lives to a new city can feel cinematic, but only with the right person.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 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
Instead of shopping online or schlepping kids to multiple stores, parents just stop by Dick’s for everything they need.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
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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