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work

[wurk] / wɜrk /








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What are other ways to say work? Work is the general word for exertion of body or mind, and it may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker's health.

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The authors also acknowledge that the work benefited from the O2 High-Performance Compute Cluster, supported by the Research Computing Group at HMS.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

She calls her garden a work in progress, and although she has suffered failures along the way, she values the friendships she has made outside her front door.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“The Saudis and others knew that the crisis was on its way, so they started pumping more and putting more out into the market, and so it’s taken a while to work all that off.”

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

The new issue arose immediately following their work.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

She vows that this will only make the counterprotesters work harder to make sure the building opens in six days.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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