schlep
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You have to schlep around while it’s raining, snowing or just hot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
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
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
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
They’re reclaiming date night, saying no to schlepping to 17 different after-school activities and making peace with dirty dishes in the sink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
How would I fare later, schlepping a precious martini into the living room?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 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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Wonder
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English Words Derived from Yiddish
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