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as in relentless
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as in ambling
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as in laboring
to devote serious and sustained effort
plodded night and day to get the assignment done
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as in stumbling
to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
oxen plodding through deep mud
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as in dragging
to move slowly
plodded reluctantly off to work
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as in shuffling
to move heavily or clumsily
wayfarers plodding across the sandy wastes
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plodding
Adjective
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The only sober attendees are a father (Sergi López) and his young son (Bruno Núñez) who are hoping to find the boy’s sister, a bohemian swept up in the relentless rhythm of this road-tripping bacchanalia.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025 -
Every athlete knows the importance of quick recovery, especially when battling the hot sun, sprawling courses, and relentless challenges.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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The Mets’ 3-1 Opening Day loss to the Houston Astros at Daikin Park featured a base-running blunder, a botched double play and a starting pitcher who was laboring by the fourth inning and was removed with two outs in the fifth.—
Abbey Mastracco,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2025
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The Mets’ 3-1 Opening Day loss to the Houston Astros at Daikin Park featured a baserunning blunder, a botched double play and a starting pitcher who was laboring by the fourth inning and was removed with two outs in the fifth.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2025
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But the $12 billion decline in his fortune has more to do with asset shuffling than stock price movement.—
Julie Goldenberg,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
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James has been shuffling back and forth between the NBA and the G League.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
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With the help of Elon Musk’s buzz saw, Trump has mounted an unremitting assault on the legislature’s exclusive authority to control federal spending, which is its main leverage over the executive branch in the Constitution’s separation of powers.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Sure, Premier League clubs were generally profitable at that time — rapid growth in TV rights deals had not yet been caught up, and then trampled over, by the unremitting surge in player wages — but only Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool booked a bigger surplus over those six years than United.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025
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Post struggled in his first go, thrown into the fire against the best team in the league that plays a style designed to punish heavy-footed centers.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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Carlson had just a 43 percent touchback percentage last season with Green Bay. Shanahan, however, is not inclined to bring aboard a heavy-footed kicker to simply get touchbacks.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2024
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In those 1930s films, the fast-talking lovers and schemers acknowledged the struggling world around them, if quietly (few films beyond Gold Diggers of 1933 made explicit reference to economic turmoil).—
Eric Kohn,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
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Ordinary Americans also work for league media arms such as the NFL Network, which last year conducted layoffs, or their partners, including regional sports networks that are struggling to keep pace.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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They were left operating on fumes by the end, with Ollie Watkins — Duran’s replacement — starved of service and Morgan Rogers consigned to trudging off the pitch, knowing his long dribbling bursts would have scant options ahead of him.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
27 Dec. 2024
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Standard time brings more sunshine to earlier hours, insuring that children are not trudging to school in cold-weather darkness.—
David K. Li,
NBC News,
22 Dec. 2024
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Season Two centers around a persistent cyborg journalist who starts excavating into Dr. Sleech's dubious past, uncovering some controversial incidents.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
17 May 2025
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Unlike last weekend’s brief warmup, this heat wave is forecast to be a bit more persistent.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2025
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“Plodding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plodding. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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