lucubration

noun

Definition of lucubrationnext
as in drudgery

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  1. drudgery
  2. effort
  3. heavy lifting
  4. labor
  5. headache
  6. bear
  7. job
Noun
  • This aims to save photo editors from the multi-step drudgery of editing faces.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Life itself, with all its toil, drudgery, tragedy, and pain, is weighty enough.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of drudgery
Noun
  • In a larger effort, Hoskin and colleagues recently assessed the habitat ranges of 55 eastern Australian frog species, including 25 affected by Bd.
    Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
  • So, for a third time, potential statewide rent controls lost — and by a similarly large margin as the other two efforts.
    Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of effort
Noun
  • This outsourcing approach allows businesses to focus on growth while the experts take on the heavy lifting of finding savings.
    Eric Steele, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The competing researchers noted that AI did the heavy lifting of analyzing data gathered via drones, audio sensors, and analyses of environmental DNA, all the while respecting Brazilian data collection rules.
    ByAndrew J. Wight, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of heavy lifting
Noun
  • Voters also continued their swing toward tough-on-crime policy by voting to continue some involuntary labor in California.
    Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Operating expenses for the quarter increased to $17.3 million from $16.4 million, primarily due to cash severance costs and lower labor costs allocated to cost of revenue.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of labor
Noun
  • Exposure to high concentrations can cause people to lose consciousness and can lead to long-term effects such as headaches, poor attention span, poor memory and poor motor function, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
    Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Common symptoms include a runny or stuffy nose, sore throat, sneezing, coughing, mild headache, and a low-grade fever.
    Brandi Jones, MSN-Ed, Health, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of headache
Noun
  • In this case, however, the bear found a natural food source — a dead critter in the woods — and made the most of it.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Zoom in: Fear is an adaptive mechanism that humans developed to help us, long ago, avoid things like being eaten by a bear, Bradford told Axios.
    Kale Williams, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of bear
Noun
  • Having somehow returned, firmly, to the real world, the narrator decides to quit his job and start working in a library in a small, out-of-the-way town in Fukushima Prefecture.
    Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • His job on this day involves hauling containers from the congested TraPac terminal in the Port of Los Angeles to a storage yard near the port.
    Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of job
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