Dig
Dig verb - Work hard.
Usage example: She was digging away at her math homework
Nearby Words: digging, digged
Labor
Labor verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.
Usage example: he labored most of the day over the difficult legal brief
Both words in one sentence
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We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: Romulans and Cardassians are heavy into dilithium mining, and employ untouchables (such as the Reman caste) or subjugated aliens to dig it up for them.
Source: Franchise / Star Trek - Individual prisons tended to be infamous for the particular punishment drills they favored, usually hard physical labor like literal rock-breaking or "the well drill," where soldiers dug out wells and then filled them in so they had a place to dig the next well.
Source: Useful Notes / British Prisons
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