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- noun Alternative spelling of
grunt work .
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Examples
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What's more, the central midfielders doing the gruntwork—Lucas Leiva and Ramires—are less one-dimensional than their counterparts in South Africa.
World Cup Countdown Begins in Brazil Gabriele Marcotti 2011
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What's more, the central midfielders doing the gruntwork—Lucas Leiva and Ramires—are less one-dimensional than their counterparts in South Africa.
World Cup Countdown Begins in Brazil Gabriele Marcotti 2011
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Arriving last on this occasion, Jack figured, had actually been beneficial: for a change, his predecessors had done the time-consuming guesswork and gruntwork for him.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Arriving last on this occasion, Jack figured, had actually been beneficial: for a change, his predecessors had done the time-consuming guesswork and gruntwork for him.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Arriving last on this occasion, Jack figured, had actually been beneficial: for a change, his predecessors had done the time-consuming guesswork and gruntwork for him.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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I had to do gruntwork to become a boss, and it is certainly nice to have this responsibility.
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Biowar makes geekfu and gruntwork a necessary combination afterwards.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Night Shade Books December 2008 - Jeremy Lassen Blue Tyson 2009
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We keep the infosystems and medical and marketing jobs where 98% of the money is and ship the 2% gruntwork to Asia?
Obama Drops New Mailer Hitting Hillary On Trade, But Its Implication Is Wrong 2009
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As more people grow fruit and vegetables for financial and ecological benefits, Midler advises patience, embracing the gruntwork, reading books and watching DVDs on gardening, and swapping out bad soil for the good stuff.
Andrea Chalupa: 15 Years Later, Why Bette Midler Is Still Trying to Save New York 2009
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Ted and Valina Dawson of Johns Hopkins University were doing the kind of scientific gruntwork the recruiters don't warn about: breeding mice.
The Mice That Roared 2008
mollusque commented on the word gruntwork
Past thirty, she had no more time or pride to risk on ambition. Nothing wrong with honest gruntwork for a secure company that lacked all pretension. If her fate lay in consumer relations, she would relate to consumers as expertly as humanly possible.
--Richard Powers, 2007, The Echo Maker, p. 13
October 4, 2008