The relationships between soldiers begin as the result of common suffering in basic training, schools and field training where the troops brave cold, rain, homesickness and exhausting work to accomplish a common goal.

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Not many players who can score that readily have much taste for the exhausting, gritty work at the other end of the court.

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When I talk to men and women in their 50s and 60s who've decided to take on encore careers as teachers, they tell me that the work is often exhausting and stressful.

CNN: For many, a sense of purpose makes job stress worthwhile

Hence the exhausting cycle of constantly monitoring their work and performance, which in turn makes children feel less competent and confident, so that they need even more oversight.

NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

The gold was plentiful, but the work was time consuming and exhausting, and not everyone thrived when the competition was so strong.

BBC: The glittering goldfields of southeastern Australia

As it will be when fewer of us have to do exhausting, noisy, boring and repetitive work on production lines.

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But Russ Draper lost his job last summer and was out of work for five months, exhausting most of the family's savings.

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The movie is grimly overproduced and exhausting, an irritating, preposterous, but fitfully enjoyable work, in which every element has been inflated.

NEWYORKER: Sherlock Holmes