trudge

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Recent Examples of trudge In other works, such as Winding Road (1937) and Figure in a Landscape (1939), women trudge through empty countryside, stalked by freak clouds or stunted trees. Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025 Former Everton forward Richarlison did his own emotional lap of his former home — a slow, shirtless, bittersweet trudge back through memory lane — after Tottenham Hotspur’s 3-2 defeat at Goodison in January. Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 15 May 2025 Amid all the chaos, the Pirates are trudging through a mediocre season. Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025 The men trudged through blizzards, across frozen sea and land, dragging 150-pound sleds behind them. Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for trudge
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Verb
  • The team then trained three seals–Nick, Luca, and Miro–to shuffle into place in front of a large screen and showed them the simulations.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
  • When one of the figures is placed at the top of a ramp, the force of gravity causes the toy to walk down to the bottom by shuffling its legs back and forth.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 May 2025
Verb
  • While sorting through storage in their Rhode Island studio to prep those reissues, Ivy stumbled upon a treasure trove of reel-to-reel tapes and old hard drives with unused material.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 4 June 2025
  • On a remote island in northern Norway, metal detectorists stumbled upon a pair of bronze treasures.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
Verb
  • In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the Criterion Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 May 2025
  • No one could agree on whether the brawl of as many as nine young men was limited to fists or if its participants were also kicking and stomping.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2025
Verb
  • Command and control continue to haunt Cleveland Guardians right-hander, Triston McKenzie. McKenzie, 27, struggled mightily in his brief appearances with the Guardians this season.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Both ended up struggling to hold their country together, let alone effect the changes that their activist supporters had hoped to see.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 4 June 2025

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“Trudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trudge. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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