laborious
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Everyone I spoke with described the current process of tracing foodborne illnesses as laborious and slow and hampered by an absence of a unified approach.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Exhausting, laborious, oppressive, but three points and hope.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Regulatory shortcuts exist that would allow the FDA to skip the more laborious approval process.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
The pharma giants will still have other moats, notably the laborious regulatory and testing regime as well as distribution.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
Maddie fought the aircraft for a while, straightened the rudder, felt the speed increase as Dympna’s laborious cranking of the undercarriage began to progress and the extra drag fell away.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing laborious
Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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