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adj. - Doing arduous or unpleasant work.

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  • You pour so much of yourself into your work and you so desperately hope and dream that all the toiling is going to one day pay off.
  • Look at Virginia Madsen, who was kind of toiling in obscurity for a decade.
  • It may be a reflection of their imagination, but not of their mental faculties, or social status as some kind of toiling peasant.
  • Surely the Gul Moti had heard the "toiling" of them in!
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