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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 posted on X.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025

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

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024

Well, that and the fact that people really do talk a lot about real estate, a subject that somehow manages to be tedious and thrilling, crass and impersonal all at once.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024

Of the other plates it would be tedious to speak in detail.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin




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