See beaver away in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis.",
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"ref": "1979 June 28, “Feedback: Trouble at th’ Laboratory”, in New Scientist, page 1103:",
"text": "The most obvious impact of the strike was the “havoc” created at Glasgow and London’s Heathrow airports by striking air traffic controllers (who joined the strike in solidarity and are not themselves directly involved in the dispute). But quietly and without fuss, thousands of scientists normally beavering away in seclusion downed microscopes, test tubes, and oscilloscopes.",
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"ref": "2004, Michael Coulson, An Insider’s Guide to the Mining Sector, published 2011, unnumbered page:",
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"text": "\"I'm still baffled at what you were able to accomplish. The rubberband effect would have lasted at least another... well, it could have lasted ten years without you beavering away in there. Maybe longer. I couldn't... we couldn't have waited that long. We needed you back, and here you are.\"",
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"(idiomatic) To work hard at a task."
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"sense": "to busily undertake",
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