schlep
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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
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
If there’s a house by Lautner or Neutra or Frank Lloyd Wright, sometimes we’ll take a schlep just for the house, to even just see from the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
“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
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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
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
Boomers tend to take longer trips and pack more bags—and don’t want to deal with schlepping them through airports and on and off cruises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
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
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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