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noun

plodding

hard monotonous routine work

In a sentence

Six example sentences with plodding, each labelled with its topic.

  • Behind the launch video sat two years of plodding: invoices, permits, and calls to suppliers who never returned them.

    Startups

  • Most of a paralegal's week is plodding, reading eleven thousand pages of email so one sentence can be found.

    Law

  • Genome assembly rewards plodding, since a single mismatched base can send an entire afternoon of analysis back to the start.

    Science

  • An audit is mostly plodding, matching ten thousand receipts to ledger lines until the one that does not fit appears.

    Finance

  • Archival research is plodding, reading a century of parish registers for the six births that matter to the argument.

    History

  • Behind every effortless concerto lies years of plodding, scales at eight in the morning and the same passage two hundred times.

    Music

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