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schlep

[shlep] / ʃlɛp /


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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

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

The Zamels wake before dawn for the two-hour schlep to the Westside to keep them in school with their friends.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 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

“Anyway, I’m guessing you didn’t schlep all the way out here just to listen to me talk business. What are you doing here?”

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

His daughter, Lisa Wright, recalled that one Christmas, they wound up schlepping an emergency eggnog delivery from one Wawa that had extra to another that ran out.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

But opportunities like last week’s flogging of the new Porsche 911 Turbo S on Circuito Ascari are rare and require considerable schlepping.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

Still, they supported her ambitions, schlepping her to and from auditions and performances, and their creative natures helped her to see that a career in the arts “wasn’t off-limits,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 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

And in her defense, she said it had been a long, wet day schlepping through monsoon floods.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon




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