Like their counterparts in the West, many workers groan about having to plod on for longer.

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So Mr. Henen sometimes demonstrates to troops how he soaks the reptiles in a pool until they drink enough water to plod on with their lives.

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Now that I have fizzled out, I still enjoy putting on art that I like and introducing new artists to our visitors, so I hope it makes it worthwhile to plod on.

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Loath to shutter money-losing businesses, managers plod on.

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With something now worth fighting for, the fear of under-achieving because an inadequate leader had been allowed to plod lamely on was suddenly unbearable.

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This ability would allow a quantum computer to do the mathematical heavy-lifting required for, say, cracking secret codes, while even the fastest and most advanced supercomputers plod along on the same problem.

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In "Engine of Ruin, " leader Dylan Carlson and his crew plod through noir-Americana like outlaw jazz improvisers on their way to collect a bounty.

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For one reason or another, they would awaken one morning, pack up and, leaving nothing of themselves behind, plod up the next long hill toward the smoky horizon, their meager belongings on their backs, in search of some other inhospitable piece of African real estate that no one else would have, where no one else would live, where no one given a choice including the boy would choose to be born.

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