lucubration

Definition of lucubrationnext

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Noun
  • Your inner lover girl is dying for some time in the sun, for a vacation from your usual drudgeries.
    Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The drudgery is real, even at this income tier, as the Miami Heat wind their way though this western swing of five games in seven nights, including Thursday night’s matchup against the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The victims, all elementary school students, got into difficulty in a frozen pond in Bonham, a city about 60 miles northeast of Dallas, triggering a desperate effort by their mother and a neighbor to save them, FOX 4 reported.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The project also reflects Beijing’s broader effort to anchor long-term energy security with low-carbon baseload power.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The city lifted its snow emergency Monday, but cleaning up the streets is taking a good amount of heavy lifting.
    Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Unconventional composers Latham and Shelby Gaines’ terrific, mood-setting score does a lot of the heavy lifting, so to speak, as the movie skips between set-pieces.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • That judicial warrant is a court order, said Ian Macdonald, an attorney and partner in the labor and employment practice of Greenberg Traurig LLP.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That advantage is likely to stay with the Dodgers, even if somehow the owners were able to strongarm the players into a cap system when the latest labor deal expires on December 1st of this year.
    Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Think peachy-bright, brunchy, and a little flirty without the headache.
    Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Sonny Fouts, 71, has had a headache, stomachache and trouble sleeping since seeing news reports that the 37-year-old ICU nurse had been fatally shot by ICE agents Saturday, the vet and retired musician told People.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Old GPUs from Club name Nvidia are more than holding their value, which ends the big bear case revolving depreciation.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
  • He’d been lured from his desk like a bear from a cave and remained standing.
    Nell Freudenberger, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • For Joseph, a couple of these jobs look like dead ends anyway.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
  • That should also decrease the likelihood of mass layoffs or displacement, giving workers a chance to find jobs elsewhere.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2026
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“Lucubration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lucubration. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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