as in labored
to devote serious and sustained effort
toiled for many years on the mammoth outdoor sculpture
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Recent Examples of toiled
Vanderbilt toiled for 13 years to make the independent film.
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Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
But while guys like Payton Tolle, Connelly Early and Hunter Dobbins were garnering headlines, one of Boston’s best young arms toiled largely out of public view.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
Keaton Middleton had the type of year last season that thousands of hockey players who have toiled away in the minors dream of.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Holmes toiled for a decade in the minors before his first MLB call with the Braves in 2024.
—David O'Brien, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Notably, the designer has also toiled away on behalf of her namesake label.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
While Jackson toiled with the training staff on the sidelines, Stafford was in street clothes for all of July and the first half of August.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
For the past decade, singer-songwriter Corrina — aka Corrina Grant Gill — has toiled in intimate spaces like Music City's The East Room, gaining comparisons to soulful and pop-styled stars like Chris Stapleton and Carrie Underwood.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 9 Aug. 2025
Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
But while guys like Payton Tolle, Connelly Early and Hunter Dobbins were garnering headlines, one of Boston’s best young arms toiled largely out of public view.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
Keaton Middleton had the type of year last season that thousands of hockey players who have toiled away in the minors dream of.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
Holmes toiled for a decade in the minors before his first MLB call with the Braves in 2024.
—David O'Brien, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Notably, the designer has also toiled away on behalf of her namesake label.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025
While Jackson toiled with the training staff on the sidelines, Stafford was in street clothes for all of July and the first half of August.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
For the past decade, singer-songwriter Corrina — aka Corrina Grant Gill — has toiled in intimate spaces like Music City's The East Room, gaining comparisons to soulful and pop-styled stars like Chris Stapleton and Carrie Underwood.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toiled
Verb
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Betsy’s love labored between two living losses.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Her sister struggled for years with substance use, leading their mother to assume custody of her sister's two children.—
Victoria Moorwood,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
26 Oct. 2025
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After an effort to create a Falls of the Ohio national park fell short in 1967, Kentucky and Indiana officials struggled to stop the falls from becoming a garbage dump.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
25 Oct. 2025
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Since Operation Nightingale began, the three agencies have worked on 24,757 square feet of the site and recovered nearly 5,000 of the plane’s artifacts.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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But the real, urgent work ahead of them was to redeem the losses slavery had wrought.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Toiled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toiled. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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