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
  • Fuller’s ideas are hard to summarize, but always seem to reach toward a utopian vision of escaping the drudgery of everyday life.
    — Christopher Cox, Vanity Fair, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Aesthetic experiences were here not reserved for museums or the elite, but folded in along with daily drudgeries.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of drudgery
Noun
  • Clay did not respond to questions Friday about the status of efforts to recover the money or whether the department is considering legal action.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2026
  • State law bars judges from adding items to the ballot after Tuesday, a tight deadline that could scramble Hanaway’s efforts to overturn the ruling.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of effort
Noun
  • The girls dropped out of school and moved to Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, to work long hours in a restaurant, where they were exposed to sharp tools, hot surfaces and heavy lifting.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Spring and fall often require the most heavy lifting, since mild temperatures support tasks like reseeding, aeration, fertilizing, and more.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of heavy lifting
Noun
  • Assertive Mars clashes with your ruler Saturn, highlighting tension around your home, family, or the amount of emotional labor each person carries.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Shipbuilding used to mean months of labor, custom wooden frames, and massive upfront tooling costs.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of labor
Noun
  • West Nile symptoms A full 80% of those infected may not show symptoms, but 20% have flu-like symptoms, such as a fever with headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, rash or fatigue.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Cole Burston / Getty Images With so many clubs still in the mix, even scoreboard watching can induce a headache.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of headache
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the clinical data undercuts the GLP-1 bear case, and Insulet’s balance sheet and margin profile show no cracks beyond the specific retention metric management flagged.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The biggest bear killers by far in Central Florida are motor vehicles, blamed for killing 1,545 bears in the region in the past 10 years, including 219 in 2025, the most since 2021 when 242 bears died on the region’s roadways.
    — Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of bear
Noun
  • In April, Flock Safety opened a 97,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Smyrna that is intended to create more than 200 jobs over the next three years as part of a $10 million investment.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The Giants are entrusting Bryce Eldridge, their 21-year-old rookie, with the job of protecting Devers in the lineup.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of job
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“Lucubration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lucubration. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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