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as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily
flooded residents who were forced to trudge through waist-deep water
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as in to stumble
to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
no expert on taxes, I spent the whole weekend trudging through government forms
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Recent Examples of trudge
Messi, meanwhile, trudged back to the center circle with his head down.
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Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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
The ones on sleds congregated on the side table in the dining room, which had a surface of snow-like white marble, and the ones lugging sacks occupied the living room coffee table, as though trudging down from the North Pole.
—Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Beaver Creek is best known as the fanciest ski resort in the nation, with staffers serving free warm chocolate chip cookies in a village that has heated sidewalks and escalators everywhere so those in boots don’t have to trudge through snow or use stairs.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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
The ones on sleds congregated on the side table in the dining room, which had a surface of snow-like white marble, and the ones lugging sacks occupied the living room coffee table, as though trudging down from the North Pole.
—Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Beaver Creek is best known as the fanciest ski resort in the nation, with staffers serving free warm chocolate chip cookies in a village that has heated sidewalks and escalators everywhere so those in boots don’t have to trudge through snow or use stairs.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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As he’s been awaiting trial in Charlotte since his arrest in 2012 on a first-degree murder charge, Perkins has been shuffled between the Mecklenburg County jail, Broughton Hospital, Central Prison, and Central Regional Hospital dozens of times.Kallie Cox, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
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Players can shuffle and rearrange the board of words to help them with guessing the connections.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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The Packers stumbled down the stretch, losing three of five, including two in a row.Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Apparently, Ron had unknowingly stumbled into a deer chase by one or more wolves.Al Wolter, Outdoor Life, 10 Jan. 2025
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There's also the arrival of Shane's mother Kitty (Molly Shannon), who shows up to stomp all over the honeymoon his new bride Rachel is attempting to salvage.Griff Griffin, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Like Frankenstein’s monster and so many of the robots that keep stomping across our big and small screens, Norbot also seems to threaten the very life that it’s meant to help.Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
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Walgreens, Rite Aid, Bench Commission, Dunia closures Pharmacy chains are struggling, too.David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 11 Jan. 2025
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With leading scorer Walter Clayton Jr. struggling to a season-low 7 points, backup Denzel Aberdeen had a season-high 16 points.Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Trudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trudge. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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