toil

These cornerstones of democracy are failures, they tell us, as they toil away to ensure that it is so.

In 2022, a Times investigation found that California’s massive illegal marijuana market pushes legal growers toward financial ruin, exacerbates community violence, causes massive amounts of environmental degradation and forces laborers to toil in squalid and often dangerous conditions.

The psychological toll of Lennon’s addictions is palpable, as is the personal toil that was required for him to will yet another album into being.

The scorpion has depths that ensure their insides will also be pried open — whether they like it or not, and no matter how hard they may toil and calculate to keep all their secrets.

England’s response to Pakistan’s total was a step into the unknown, an exercise in giving context to their bowlers’ toil of the previous four sessions.