toils

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CHERAW, S.C.—Inside a Schaeffler SHA0 -3.78%decrease; red down pointing triangle auto-parts factory, a most unusual worker toils away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

So are the film’s many montages underlining Ryuta’s plight — he toils at multiple jobs to care for his sick mother — that reduce the character to something of a sob story.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

Boyarsky toils in a back room drenched in natural light, her cat Roxy at her side.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2023

After Aziza, a working-class woman, toils overtime to buy Shokry’s first wish, she gets snared in Egypt’s arbitrary, labyrinthine justice system.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney