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schlep

[shlep] / ʃlɛp /


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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

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 went on tours with me, built my bed and schlepped all my clothes over from Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 23, 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

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

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

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

How would I fare later, schlepping a precious martini into the living room?

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 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

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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