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be tedious



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“It would be tedious as well as unwelcome,” Lord Halifax said on another occasion, “to recapitulate all our wrong steps.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

“This will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero,” he wrote on X.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

In practice, however, this is of little use -- after all, it would be tedious to repeatedly irradiate the wall with intense UV light in order to drive the self-cleaning process.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

Experts say finding that sweet spot can be tedious trial and error.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2023

This image is to supply the place of interminable details, that would be tedious and tame.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles




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