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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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3
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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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plodding
Adjective
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The path isn’t always easy—after all, short-term pressures and market volatility can be relentless.—
Nell Derick Debevoise,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025 -
Most took the language of his cryptic message to mean that there was something to the breakup buzz, which has been relentless since late 2024.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
22 Feb. 2025
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New York police on Monday were trying to determine why someone set a woman ablaze board a train in Brooklyn in a fatal attack drawing outrage from city and state leaders who have been laboring to make the trains safer.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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Earlier this year the agency adopted new heat protections that apply to indoor workers, expanding safety measures for more than a million workers laboring in warehouses, kitchens, laundry rooms and other hot indoor settings.—
Suhauna Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Dec. 2024
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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
Adjective
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And, of course, the terrible, unfair, unremitting pressure on actresses to comply with unrealistic Hollywood beauty standards that nourish that noxious need.—
Valerie Monroe,
Allure,
21 Feb. 2025
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Operators everywhere face a universal and unremitting predicament: Customers want more data at faster speeds to run ever more sophisticated applications.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 Dec. 2013
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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
Verb
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But because of passenger complaints and the need to revitalize a struggling tourist economy, the government adopted new regulations last month that will force a change in these habits.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
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
Adjective
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Intense fear of gaining weight or persistent behaviors that get in the way of weight gain, even if the person is already at a dangerously low weight.—
Daryl Austin,
USA TODAY,
24 Feb. 2025
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Flick was hopeful Yamal would be available for Tuesday’s Copa del Rey semi-final first leg against Atletico Madrid but said referees should take greater action to deter persistent fouling.—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Plodding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plodding. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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