arduous
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Arduous journeys are often compounded by long queues at the bridge.
From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023
Leader Kim Jong-un has compared the current situation to the country's worst disaster in the 1990's, known as the "Arduous March", where hundreds of thousands of people died in a famine.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2021
He was fascinated by iron age corpses preserved in peat, and by the job of cutting turf: Arduous, routine but satisfying.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2013
Physics An Arduous Business Trip Not everyone has a 50-foot-wide electromagnet to spare.
From New York Times • May 20, 2013
Brave as I boast myself, I feel the task500 Arduous, through the breach made by myself To win a passage to the ships, alone.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
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