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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

To examine in detail the whole of Justin's quotations would be tedious and unnecessary.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels




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