heavy lifting

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Recent Examples of heavy lifting McCarthy does not have to do all of the heavy lifting. Alec Lewis, New York Times, 22 May 2025 Get your customers to sell for you instead of doing all the heavy lifting yourself. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025 This path would require a lot of time, money and heavy lifting from both Couchbase and the activist, likely involving Irenic securing board representation followed by years of collaboration and restructuring. Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 17 May 2025 The Disney networks did much of the heavy lifting in the first round, as deliveries across the 12 ABC/ESPN games were up 14% year-to-year, while the TNT Sports channels saw a more modest 4% lift as their long association with the NBA nears an end. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavy lifting
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Noun
  • In the run-up to Friday's premiere, the Apple TV+ marketing team recreated Severance's drab-chic cubicles inside a glass box in the iconic station's Vanderbilt Hall, a place whose grandness belies the drudgery plaguing so many of the commuters crossing through it.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The bar where everyone knows his name is his refuge from the day-to-day drudgery of his job as an accountant.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • More severe cases of salmonellosis may include a high fever, aches, headaches, lethargy, a rash, blood in the urine or stool, and in some cases may become fatal.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • Its stern warnings are scary and uncomfortable--the headaches, indigestion, muscle spasms, body aches, clenched teeth or knots in your chest.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Holly Gibney is back on the case, this time facing both a serial killer and a stalker.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
  • Fast forward about four decades to 2023, when the county Crime Lab, run by the DA’s office, was tasked with re-examining the available physical evidence from Peterson’s killing to look for any forensic traces of her killer.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • The long-term goal is ecological corridors to expand the bear population.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
  • Which again, don't sound problematic but are coming from an administration filled with people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who wouldn't accept scientific evidence unless it were delivered in the corpse of a bear.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 4 June 2025
  • Seeing them at all used to be very rare, but sightings are increasing as their numbers grow thanks to conservation efforts.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • For manufacturing to continue growing our economy, creating jobs and developing the best products in the world, the United States must update its permitting laws and procedures.
    Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
  • The unemployment rate is hovering at just over 4%, and employers have added a solid number of jobs each month.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Regardless of your intentions, performing extra chores beyond cleaning up after yourself can be perceived as a sign of respect or rudeness.
    Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2025
  • The supervising adult should be actively watching the child and not distracted by chores or their smartphone.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Some of them aren’t physically or mentally ready to handle the grind and the pressure of playing in the National Hockey League.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 6 June 2025
  • However, there's a reason why teams have become proactive about buying players more rest throughout the grind of the 82-game regular season.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025

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“Heavy lifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heavy%20lifting. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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